From 929a016b4d571531897ca7e97c39a98e592a8cc7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jamis Buck <jamis@37signals.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 04:40:48 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add Actor#connect! method for working around lazy connection
 establishing

git-svn-id: http://svn.rubyonrails.org/rails/tools/switchtower@3601 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de
---
 CHANGELOG                | 2 ++
 lib/switchtower/actor.rb | 8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index f828eb10..f1f66595 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 *0.11.0* *SVN*
 
+* Add Actor#connect! method for working around lazy connection establishing
+
 * Make sure IO::TRUNC is specified for Net::SFTP uploads (#3510)
 
 * Add branch support to CVS [jeremy@hinegardner.org] (#3596)
diff --git a/lib/switchtower/actor.rb b/lib/switchtower/actor.rb
index 61c61e70..35a6dfdc 100644
--- a/lib/switchtower/actor.rb
+++ b/lib/switchtower/actor.rb
@@ -326,6 +326,14 @@ module SwitchTower
       self.class.default_io_proc
     end
 
+    # Used to force connections to be made to the current task's servers.
+    # Connections are normally made lazily in SwitchTower--you can use this
+    # to force them open before performing some operation that might be
+    # time-sensitive.
+    def connect!(options={})
+      execute_on_servers(options) { }
+    end
+
     def metaclass
       class << self; self; end
     end