Backgroundrb devel - Jul 2006 - [PATCH-SUGGESTION] autostarting workers

Hi there,
as i stated before in my talk with Ben Johnson, I hacked a little bit and
here it is - autostarting jobs. I think someone (eh... Ezra) should review
it and check to see if i made any mistakes. Also i dont have the possibility
to test it on other-than-Windows systems, but since the calling process
works just the same, it should do well...
Now the neccesary evil, the documentation...
If you want a worker to start when BackgrounDRb start, you just have to add
a few lines to your backgroundrb.yml file:

[.. your config...]
autostart:
  job_key:
    class: foo_worker
    args: bar

args can be everything YAML allows. Since the backgroundrb.yml file is
parsed by ERb _before_ YAML, conditional autostart is possible, just like in
your rhtml templates. But keep in mind that the Rails environment is loaded
_after_ the config file is parsed, so you won''t have access to your
Models!
Don''t forget: Have fun!

-- 
Michael Siebert <info at siebert-wd.de>

www.stellar-legends.de - Weltraum-Browsergame im Alpha-Stadium
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On Jul 31, 2006, at 1:17 PM, Michael Siebert wrote:
> <autostart.patch>
Looks good Michael. When I get a free moment I will give it a look  
over and commit it.

Thanks
-Ezra