Rails - Dec 2005 - Meta-search engine with Rails?

Hi all,

We built a litte application which is a little bit like a meta search 
engine, ie, a user make a request and then we launch a few "bots" that
will search the informations. Now, the web front end is written with 
Rails, and, when we receive a request, we open a named pipe and we 
launch a multi-threaded python program (the bots).

Now, in order to have a lot more control on the entire process we''d 
really like to rewrite the whole application in a "Rails way". So, is 
there already some component that we can use to launch a multi threaded 
(or something like that) program inside a Rails app? Has anybody ever 
built a similar application?

Thanks in advance,


yk

I don''t recommend to fire threads off the rails dispatcher process.
Every
fastcgi request has a timeout constraints. So you''re better off using 
Linda-like systems where you can place a request for processing and check for 
the result at the later time. 

Check out Rinda at
http://segment7.net/projects/ruby/drb/rinda/ringserver.html

Kent.

On Friday 09 December 2005 07:21, Yann Klis wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We built a litte application which is a little bit like a meta search
> engine, ie, a user make a request and then we launch a few "bots"
that
> will search the informations. Now, the web front end is written with
> Rails, and, when we receive a request, we open a named pipe and we
> launch a multi-threaded python program (the bots).
>
> Now, in order to have a lot more control on the entire process
we''d
> really like to rewrite the whole application in a "Rails way".
So, is
> there already some component that we can use to launch a multi threaded
> (or something like that) program inside a Rails app? Has anybody ever
> built a similar application?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
> yk
>
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