Backgroundrb devel - May 2008 - nil.send_request = Incorrect worker name?

Hi, 

Would greatly appreciate some help with this.
Is the following error caused by an incorrect worker name?

You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!
The error occurred while evaluating nil.send_request
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/packet-0.1.5/lib/packet/packet_master.rb:44:in
`ask_worker''


Here''s what I''m doing in my rails console.  

MiddleMan.new_worker(:worker => :foo_worker, :job_key =>
''1'')
worker = MiddleMan.worker(:worker => :foo_worker, :job_key =>
''1'')
worker.bar()



Querying all workers shows the foo_worker_1 is there..
>> pp MiddleMan.query_all_workers
{:type=>:all_worker_status}
{:log_worker=>nil,
 :foo_worker_1=>{:rand=>679}}

I''m using rails 2.02, Packet 0.1.5 and Chronic 0.2.3.


I tried the mainline git version but got this error.  It needs a newer version
of Packet?
`load_missing_constant'': uninitialized constant Packet::BinParser
(NameError)

Many Thanks
Andy Watts

       
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On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 7:04 AM, Andy Watts <andywatts at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Would greatly appreciate some help with this.
> Is the following error caused by an incorrect worker name?
>
> You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!
> The error occurred while evaluating nil.send_request
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/packet-0.1.5/lib/packet/packet_master.rb:44:in
> `ask_worker''
>
> Here''s what I''m doing in my rails console.
>
> MiddleMan.new_worker(:worker => :foo_worker, :job_key =>
''1'')
> worker = MiddleMan.worker(:worker => :foo_worker, :job_key =>
''1'')
> worker.bar()
>
>
> Querying all workers shows the foo_worker_1 is there..
>>> pp MiddleMan.query_all_workers
> {:type=>:all_worker_status}
> {:log_worker=>nil,
>  :foo_worker_1=>{:rand=>679}}
>
> I''m using rails 2.02, Packet 0.1.5 and Chronic 0.2.3.
>
>
> I tried the mainline git version but got this error.  It needs a newer
> version of Packet?
> `load_missing_constant'': uninitialized constant Packet::BinParser
> (NameError)
>
Yeah, it does need newer version of packet. Can you try this ?

http://gnufied.org/2008/05/21/bleeding-edge-version-of-backgroundrb-for-better-memory-usage/