That's wonderful, thank you. I was just about to use Signal.trap(0), but I think your solution looks better.
Thanks again. Michael On Sep 7, 1:20 pm, Frederick Cheung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7 Sep 2008, at 21:04, Michael Allman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I'm confused. The config/initializers script does exactly what I want > > for opening the database, running once at app startup. Surely there's > > a comparable way to execute a shutdown script. > > Don't think there's anything rails specific. Ruby provides at_exit > which allows you to register callbacks called on exit. > > > Or, what method(s) get called when I hit ctrl-c after I've started a > > server or console instance? That's where I need to close the > > database. > > > Thanks. > > > Michael > > > On Sep 7, 8:41 am, "Bill Walton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi Michael, > > >> Michael Allman wrote: > > >>> I'm developing a rails 2 app with a custom database for persistence > >>> (not activerecord, not sql). I need to open the database once at > >>> application startup and close it once at application shutdown. I > >>> figured out how to add an application startup hook by putting a > >>> script > >>> in config/initializers. I can't figure out how to add a shutdown > >>> hook. Can someone point me in the right direction? I really need > >>> to > >>> close the database properly at shutdown time. > > >> You may be misunderstanding one of the basics of Rails > >> applications. Rails > >> apps are not daemons that start up and then sit there running, > >> waiting for a > >> next request. A Rails app exists for exactly one request - > >> response cycle. > >> It starts up when it receives a request, and it shuts down after it > >> delivers > >> its response. When it receives another request the cycle is > >> repeated. > >> Easiest thing in your case could be to define a start up method and > >> a shut > >> down method. Your start up method could be called based on a > >> global or a > >> class singleton. Your shut down method will probably have to be > >> invoked > >> explicitly though. > > >> HTH, > >> Bill --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
