I've seen a bunch of posts in various place about whether or not mongrel needs to lock when doing activerecord queries. I'm talking outside the context of rails here, for example, in a custom mongrel handler. It seems to work fine for me without a lock, but I haven't done any extensive testing.
When I ask around, some people say you need that mutex lock with activerecord. Some say you don't because the need with rails is really from actionpack. But, most people seem to say something along the lines of "in theory you shouldn't need a lock, but I'd just use one".
I was just wondering if anyone has any insight to whether or not a lock is needed when using activerecord in something outside of rails/ actionpack such as a small mongrel handler.
Thanks for any advice!