Backgroundrb devel - May 2008 - Can someone help with this error?

Hello all,

I get this intermittent error saying OpenURI::HTTPError. At the bottom of
the email is what is reported in my backgroundrb_server_<port>.log file.
The
process_netflix_reviews method is parsing (in the background) 
Netflix''s RSS
feeds. This error also pretty much brings down the BDRb process and to
recover, I am forced to do a

./script/backgroundrb stop
./script/backgroundrb start

Once I''ve done this, it chugs along fine - even for the same URI it
crashed
on last. Until at some point in the future it barfs on another URI and I
need to restart BDRb... This has been happening on and off for several days
now.

Any pointers on what I am doing wrong?

Much appreciated - thanks!

Raghu

=====================================================/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:287:in
`open_http'': 500 Internal Server Error
(OpenURI::HTTPError)
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:626:in `buffer_open''
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:164:in `open_loop''
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:162:in `catch''
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:162:in `open_loop''
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:132:in `open_uri''
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:528:in `open''
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:30:in `open''
        from
/home/raghus/public_html/feedflix.com/ff/lib/netflix.rb:467:in`process_netflix_reviews''
         ... 21 levels...
        from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/packet-0.1.5/lib/packet/packet_master.rb:20:in
`run''
        from /home/raghus/public_html/
feedflix.com/ff/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/server/lib/master_worker.rb:166:in`initialize''
        from ./script/backgroundrb:42:in `new''
        from ./script/backgroundrb:42
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Hey Raghu,

Without seeing more of what''s going on in your code it''s hard
to
troubleshoot.  Seeing a 500/503 is a pretty normal part of
communicating with an external service, so you need to make sure you
are rescuing that error.  And what do you mean by "pretty much"
bringing down the bdrb process?  If you don''t rescue that error I
would expect that your worker would die (disappear from your process
list) but that your bdrb master worker would keep on running.  Please
post your worker code (or at least your process_netflix_reviews
method) if you want troubleshooting help.

stevie

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Raghu Srinivasan
<raghu.srinivasan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I get this intermittent error saying OpenURI::HTTPError. At the bottom of
> the email is what is reported in my backgroundrb_server_<port>.log
file. The
> process_netflix_reviews method is parsing (in the background) 
Netflix''s RSS
> feeds. This error also pretty much brings down the BDRb process and to
> recover, I am forced to do a
>
> ./script/backgroundrb stop
> ./script/backgroundrb start
>
> Once I''ve done this, it chugs along fine - even for the same URI
it crashed
> on last. Until at some point in the future it barfs on another URI and I
> need to restart BDRb... This has been happening on and off for several days
> now.
>
> Any pointers on what I am doing wrong?
>
> Much appreciated - thanks!
>
> Raghu
>
> =====================================================>
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:287:in `open_http'': 500 Internal Server
Error
> (OpenURI::HTTPError)
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:626:in `buffer_open''
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:164:in `open_loop''
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:162:in `catch''
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:162:in `open_loop''
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:132:in `open_uri''
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:528:in `open''
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:30:in `open''
>         from /home/raghus/public_html/feedflix.com/ff/lib/netflix.rb:467:in
> `process_netflix_reviews''
>          ... 21 levels...
>         from
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/packet-0.1.5/lib/packet/packet_master.rb:20:in
> `run''
>         from
>
/home/raghus/public_html/feedflix.com/ff/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/server/lib/master_worker.rb:166:in
> `initialize''
>         from ./script/backgroundrb:42:in `new''
>         from ./script/backgroundrb:42
> ~
> =====================================================>
>
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