Hi, New BackgrounDrb user struggling for a couple of days to get things up an going. System: Ruby 1.8.6 Packet 0.1.5 chronic 0.2.3 BackgrounDrb 1.0.3 (downloaded 4/02/08 and 4/03/08) I installed the packet and chronic gems as per instructions. I used git to download BDrb as per instructions and ran the rake setup script. When I run script/backgroundrb from my rails app main directory, I get the following error: /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/packet-0.1.5/lib/packet/packet_core.rb:145:in `schedule_write'': You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it! (NoMethodError) The error occurred while evaluating nil.instance from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/packet-0.1.5/lib/packet/packet_nbio.rb:57:in `write_and_schedule'' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_support/whiny_nil.rb:35:in `each_with_index'' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/packet-0.1.5/lib/packet/packet_nbio.rb:51:in `each'' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/packet-0.1.5/lib/packet/packet_nbio.rb:51:in `each_with_index'' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/packet-0.1.5/lib/packet/packet_nbio.rb:51:in `write_and_schedule'' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/packet-0.1.5/lib/packet/packet_nbio.rb:72:in `dump_object'' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/packet-0.1.5/lib/packet/packet_worker.rb:31:in `send_data'' from /home/test/work/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/server/lib/meta_worker.rb:284:in `register_status'' ... 9 levels... from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/packet-0.1.5/lib/packet/packet_master.rb:20:in `run'' from /home/test/work/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/server/lib/master_worker.rb:166:in `initialize'' from script/backgroundrb:60:in `new'' from script/backgroundrb:60 ------------------- For added background, I installed BDrb from svn earlier and setup a simple worker to count to 100,000 and in my Rails app had an ajax view to issue the "ask_status" on the worker and update the web view with the current location of the "count". I was able to get the ajax view to update automatically once, and then it no longer update as if the worker was hung. I saw in the archives that someone else had a similar problem and it was recommended to download BDrb from the git repository as it had a fix that might help. I did so (and removed the old background script that was setup by the svn version and reran the setup script). But the git version does not appeare to even start the background server due to the errors above. Any help is appreciated. Roggie --------------------------------- You rock. That''s why Blockbuster''s offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/backgroundrb-devel/attachments/20080403/cf395f66/attachment-0001.html