Setup multithreading

[wwahammy]

Puma and Rails both supports multithreading. That said, it's not set up in the current code. Additionally, it's not entirely clear that Houdini's code is actually threadsafe. Setting up multithreading may require the following tasks:

• Verify that our code is threadsafe (or close to it)
• Turn on config.threadsafe! in the Rails config (since we use 3.2)
• Set up Puma multithreading (tutorial at https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/deploying-rails-applications-with-the-puma-web-server)
• Test!

This would be best handled by someone with experience dealing with Rails and multithreading

[tttp]

@EricSchultz is there a way to validate that houdini is threadsafe? what area/code you suspect being at risk?

[wwahammy]

I don't know that there's anything at major risk or really much risk. There are a number of places where I can sense that a race condition could happen. The real question is how high that risk is versus the benefit and how serious the race condition would be.

[wwahammy]

Ideally, of course, the race conditions would be eliminated but that requires some significant rework.

[wwahammy]

As for validating, there's no automatic way to do it that I know of.