connection handling was so thread-safe that it

stopped working in newly created threads

spec/spec_helper.rb

@@ -8,5 +8,5 @@ require 'rspec'
 require 'rspec/autorun'
 
 # use the test Redistat instance
-Redistat.connect(:port => 8379, :db => 15)
+Redistat.connect(:port => 8379, :db => 15, :thread_safe => true)
 Redistat.redis.flushdb

spec/thread_safety_spec.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+require "spec_helper"
+
+describe "Thread-Safety" do
+  include Redistat::Database
+  
+  before(:each) do
+    db.flushdb
+  end
+  
+  #TODO should have more comprehensive thread-safe tests
+  
+  it "should incr in multiple threads" do
+    threads = []
+    50.times do
+      threads << Thread.new {
+        db.incr("spec:incr")
+      }
+    end
+    threads.each { |t| t.join }
+    db.get("spec:incr").should == "50"
+  end
+  
+  it "should store event in multiple threads" do
+    class ThreadSafetySpec
+      include Redistat::Model
+    end
+    threads = []
+    50.times do
+      threads << Thread.new {
+        ThreadSafetySpec.store("spec:threadsafe", {:count => 1, :rand => rand(5)})
+      }
+    end
+    threads.each { |t| t.join }
+    result = ThreadSafetySpec.fetch("spec:threadsafe", 5.hours.ago, 5.hours.from_now)
+    result.total[:count].should == 50
+    result.total[:rand].should <= 250
+  end
+  
+end