Backgroundrb devel - Jul 2006 - Starting backgroundrb from rails and restarting with rails

Hi,

I have my rails sites tricked out with capistrano, and backgroundrb, so 
I can easily use the ant tasks, but I would like to be able to start and 
stop backgroundrb from within rails.

I have a few reasons for this:
1. Using fastcgi, backgroundrb would start under the apache user and the 
same mod_security context as apache, instead of my developer account 
which has many more privileges.
2. I''d like rails to be able to start backgroundrb if it isn''t
running.
3. I''d also like rails to be to restart backgroundrb if rails itself
has
been restarted.
4. I''m lazy. ;)

I''m thinking of having rails store the time that rails started in 
backgroundrb and restart backgroundrb if the time if the rails time is 
later than the backgroundrb time.

Any pointers?

Thanks,
Jason Edgecombe

While I''m not addressing all your issues -- we start backgroundrb
using a rake task and leave it running, so we start it up with our
rails app, see my previous message to the list.  To start under a
user, can''t you just chown apache:apache the script/backgroundrb file
itself?

If you''re capistranoing, I''d put in the after update code or
after
deploy a task to start it, something like this:

desc "Tasks to run after a deploy"
task :after_deploy do
  run("cd #{current_path} && rake backgroundrb:stop")
  run("cd #{current_path} && rake backgroundrb:start")
end

And if you anticpate contention problems (i.e. it starting before it''s
done stopping), you could put it in a script file with a sleep 5
command in b/t to make sure stop stops it....

p.s. Ezra, maybe we can add backgroundrb:restart and status tasks?

hope that helps

On 7/31/06, Jason Edgecombe <jedgecombe at carolina.rr.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have my rails sites tricked out with capistrano, and backgroundrb, so
> I can easily use the ant tasks, but I would like to be able to start and
> stop backgroundrb from within rails.
>
> I have a few reasons for this:
> 1. Using fastcgi, backgroundrb would start under the apache user and the
> same mod_security context as apache, instead of my developer account
> which has many more privileges.
> 2. I''d like rails to be able to start backgroundrb if it
isn''t running.
> 3. I''d also like rails to be to restart backgroundrb if rails
itself has
> been restarted.
> 4. I''m lazy. ;)
>
> I''m thinking of having rails store the time that rails started in
> backgroundrb and restart backgroundrb if the time if the rails time is
> later than the backgroundrb time.
>
> Any pointers?
>
> Thanks,
> Jason Edgecombe
>
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