Remember to return the superclass or Camping will throw a “Read error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method `status’ for nil:NilClass>” because it can’t call back into the returned controller. A modification of the above linked wiki page example illustrates -

Camping.goes :YourApp

module YourSession
  def service(*a)
    @session = YourApp::Session.new
    s = super(*a)
    @session.close
    #return s from above after completing
    s
  end
end

module YourApp
  include YourSession
end

It took me a little while to find this gem on LIKE Transformations in the Derby tuning manual. Basically the document covers some transformations which the Derby SQL parser goes through to make LIKE queries optimizable. For me, this solved the problem as it allowed me to rewrite my query into a form that was optimizable albeit with a slight loss of functionality in my application. Unfortunately, this is not the case for all LIKE queries. The transformations are quite obvious and easy to follow once you see them, so take a look if you are having similar performance problems.

Before:

SELECT checksum FROM tags WHERE tag LIKE ‘%element%’

Gets parsed into – SELECT checksum FROM tags WHERE tag LIKE ‘%element%’

After

SELECT checksum FROM tags WHERE tag LIKE ‘element%’

Gets parsed into – SELECT checksum FROM tags WHERE tag >= ‘element’ AND tag < 'elemenu'

These transformations are also potentially useful with databases other than Derby when LIKE queries are running slow, as you could do them manually on your statements to the fullest extent possible potentially eliminating LIKE altogether.