waaay speed up Pet#translate_items

A few key changes:
  * Don't reload the whole pet 8 times!! Sooo many bad things
    happen, including redundant lookups of everything else and
    too many item saves and reindexes. Instead, fetch the item
    data, apply it to the items, and then save the items (once
    each!)
  * Updated my branch of globalize3 to be even better at avoiding
    redundant queries when saving. Woo.
  * Last realization: wrapping all the item saves in a single
    transaction works wonders. COMMIT seems to have high overhead,
    so doing only one took it from 50ms * 10 or whatever to 60ms.
    Good stuff.

Gemfile.lock

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ GIT
 
 GIT
   remote: git://github.com/matchu/globalize3.git
-  revision: c7cfc359f9fc8c283e45b3847ec9b9aaedff1d54
+  revision: e23277864270131bbee29033f8a3abfb74ffe1f8
   specs:
     globalize3 (0.3.0)
       activemodel (>= 3.0.0)

app/models/pet.rb

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 require 'rocketamf/remote_gateway'
+require 'ostruct'
 
 class Pet < ActiveRecord::Base
   GATEWAY_URL = 'http://www.neopets.com/amfphp/gateway.php'
@@ -21,9 +22,30 @@ class Pet < ActiveRecord::Base
     options[:locale] ||= I18n.default_locale
     
     I18n.with_locale(options[:locale]) do
-      require 'ostruct'
+      viewer_data = fetch_viewer_data
+      pet_data = OpenStruct.new(viewer_data.custom_pet)
+      
+      self.pet_type = PetType.find_or_initialize_by_species_id_and_color_id(
+          pet_data.species_id.to_i,
+          pet_data.color_id.to_i
+        )
+      self.pet_type.body_id = pet_data.body_id
+      self.pet_type.origin_pet = self
+      biology = pet_data.biology_by_zone
+      biology[0] = nil # remove effects if present
+      @pet_state = self.pet_type.add_pet_state_from_biology! biology
+      @pet_state.label_by_pet(self, pet_data.owner)
+      @items = Item.collection_from_pet_type_and_registries(self.pet_type,
+        viewer_data.object_info_registry, viewer_data.object_asset_registry,
+        options[:item_scope])
+    end
+
+    true
+  end
+  
+  def fetch_viewer_data
     begin
-        neopets_language_code = I18n.compatible_neopets_language_code_for(options[:locale])
+      neopets_language_code = I18n.compatible_neopets_language_code_for(I18n.locale)
       envelope = PET_VIEWER.request([name, 0]).post(
         :timeout => 2,
         :headers => {
@@ -38,29 +60,7 @@ class Pet < ActiveRecord::Base
     rescue RocketAMF::RemoteGateway::ConnectionError => e
       raise DownloadError, e.message
     end
-      contents = OpenStruct.new(envelope.messages[0].data.body)
+    OpenStruct.new(envelope.messages[0].data.body)
-      pet_data = OpenStruct.new(contents.custom_pet)
-      
-      # in case this is running in a thread, explicitly grab an ActiveRecord
-      # connection, to avoid connection conflicts
-      Pet.connection_pool.with_connection do
-        self.pet_type = PetType.find_or_initialize_by_species_id_and_color_id(
-            pet_data.species_id.to_i,
-            pet_data.color_id.to_i
-          )
-        self.pet_type.body_id = pet_data.body_id
-        self.pet_type.origin_pet = self
-        biology = pet_data.biology_by_zone
-        biology[0] = nil # remove effects if present
-        @pet_state = self.pet_type.add_pet_state_from_biology! biology
-        @pet_state.label_by_pet(self, pet_data.owner)
-        @items = Item.collection_from_pet_type_and_registries(self.pet_type,
-          contents.object_info_registry, contents.object_asset_registry,
-          options[:item_scope])
-      end
-    end
-
-    true
   end
 
   def wardrobe_query
@@ -99,16 +99,45 @@ class Pet < ActiveRecord::Base
     candidates = self.item_translation_candidates
     
     until candidates.empty?
-      last_pet_loaded = nil
+      # Organize known items by ID
-      reloaded_pets = Parallel.map(candidates.keys, :in_threads => 8) do |locale|
+      items_by_id = {}
-        Rails.logger.info "Reloading #{name} in #{locale}"
+      @items.each { |i| items_by_id[i.id] = i }
-        reloaded_pet = Pet.load(name, :item_scope => Item.includes(:translations),
+      
-                                      :locale => locale)
+      # Fetch registry data in parallel
-        last_pet_loaded = reloaded_pet
+      registries = Parallel.map(candidates.keys, :in_threads => 8) do |locale|
+        viewer_data = I18n.with_locale(locale) { fetch_viewer_data }
+        [locale, viewer_data.object_info_registry]
       end
-      reloaded_pets.each(&:save!)
+      
+      # Look up any newly applied items on this pet, just in case
+      new_item_ids = []
+      registries.each do |locale, registry|
+        registry.each do |item_id, item_info|
+          item_id = item_id.to_i
+          new_item_ids << item_id unless items_by_id.has_key?(item_id)
+        end
+      end
+      Item.includes(:translations).find(new_item_ids).each do |item|
+        items_by_id[item.id] = item
+      end
+      
+      # Apply translations, and figure out what items are currently being worn
+      current_items = []
+      registries.each do |locale, registry|
+        I18n.with_locale(locale) do
+          registry.each do |item_id, item_info|
+            item = items_by_id[item_id.to_i]
+            item.origin_registry_info = item_info
+            current_items << item
+          end
+        end
+      end
+      
+      @items = current_items
+      Item.transaction { @items.each { |i| i.save! if i.changed? } }
+      
       previous_candidates = candidates
-      candidates = last_pet_loaded.item_translation_candidates
+      candidates = item_translation_candidates
       
       if previous_candidates == candidates
         # This condition should never happen if Neopets responds with correct