Ruby on Rails

Rails-talk, 

Last night I got a slew (around 2000) of these exceptions raised in my production app between 4:03 AM and 7:30 AM (eastern time). 

They all had the same pattern:

(The SQL query was different for many, but the Mysql2::Error: This connection is still waiting for a result, try again once you have the result part was the same)

I called Amazon RDS support and they said the underlying database looked fine, we are well below our IOPS threshold, and our queue depth looks healthy.

I think perhaps just 1 Unicorn worker choked up with a single MySQL call, resulting in all subsequent calls from that Unicorn worker to produce this error (for 3 hours!)

Does anyone else have any best practice advice for this error? Should I simply catch for this exception and close & reconnect any active MySQL connections ? Can someone share some examples of how to do that as cleanly as possible?

Thanks,

Jason