Backgroundrb devel - Jun 2008 - job queuing?

Hi,

Did I hear correctly that bgrb has a job queuing engine built in so you can 
inject jobs into a queue and the bgrb pick them up and get on with the work?

If so can anyone point me at any docs or if not, what solutions are you using?

thanks

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Rue Turner <rue at thinlayer.co.uk>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Did I hear correctly that bgrb has a job queuing engine built in so you can
> inject jobs into a queue and the bgrb pick them up and get on with the
work?
>
> If so can anyone point me at any docs or if not, what solutions are you
using?
>
> thanks
Not exactly how others do, but mechanism is something like this:

class HelloWorker < BackgrounDRb::MetaWorker
  set_worker_name :hello_worker
  def enque_task args
     thread_pool.defer(args) do |block_args|
        # do some work here
    end
  end
end
>From Controller:
MiddleMan.worker(:hello_worker).enque_task(some_data)

So depending upon your thread pool size, that many of tasks will run
concurrently and rest of them will be in queue.