This article explains how to detect and resolve database locks created by a rails application. The steps relate to MySQL but could be adapted for any other backend (e.g. Postgres).
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1 - Typical Symptoms
Due to long running locks (e.g.: lock while ssh-ing a compute rack which is unavailable), you may one day end up with the following error while trying to save a record:
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This means that the record is currently locked by a MySQL process.
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2 - Clearing the lock from the Rails console
You can perform the following in order to kill the offending process:
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