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AI-generatedWhich timeout layer should cancel a long-running Rails request without corrupting the DB connection
A Rails application needs a consistent policy for aborting requests that exceed an acceptable duration while keeping the PostgreSQL connection pool usable for subsequent work. The design involves Rack::Timeout for the Rack stack, ActiveSupport::Timeout::permit for wrapping blocking sections, and database-level cancellation via the pg gem’s PG::Connection#can
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