Rails - May 2006 - New BackgrounDRb release

Friends-

	There is a new release of BackgrounDRb. This time it is a full  
fledged rails plugin with generators and rake tasks thanks to Saimon  
Moore. Thanks Saimon!

	You can read all about it here on my blog:

  http://brainspl.at/articles/2006/05/25/backgroundrb-new-release

	The newest feature besides the much cleaner way to install and  
control the drb server is caching. You can now use BackgrounDRb as a  
full fledged in memory cache for any type of object that can be  
Marshal''ed. Here''s a peek:

To cache an object you can do it two ways.

@posts = Post.find(:all, :include => :comments)
MiddleMan.cache_as(:post_cache, @posts)
OR

MiddleMan.cache_as :post_cache do
   Post.find(:all, :include => :comments)
end
And to retrieve the cache you can either just grab it and if there is  
nothing there it will return nil. Or you can supply a block that the  
contents of will get placed in the cache if the cache is empty. This  
is for fallback in case the cache is empty

This will return nil if the cache is empty:

MiddleMan.cache_get :post_cache
Or the shorthand cache_get

MiddleMan[:post_cache]
This will refill the cache with the contents of the block if the  
cache is empty. Otherwise it will just return whats in the cache:

MiddleMan.cache_get :post_cache do
   Post.find(:all, :include => :comments)
end


	Hope people get some good use out of this plugin. I know it''s  
working great for me. I would love to hear about how people are using  
this in their apps so tell me about it!


Cheers-
-Ezra
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This is just awesome. Wow.

On 5/25/06, Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Friends-
>
>  There is a new release of BackgrounDRb. This time it is a full fledged
> rails plugin with generators and rake tasks thanks to Saimon Moore. Thanks
> Saimon!
>
>  You can read all about it here on my blog:
>
> http://brainspl.at/articles/2006/05/25/backgroundrb-new-release
>
>  The newest feature besides the much cleaner way to install and control the
> drb server is caching. You can now use BackgrounDRb as a full fledged in
> memory cache for any type of object that can be Marshal''ed.
Here''s a peek:
>
>
>
> To cache an object you can do it two ways.
> @posts = Post.find(:all, :include => :comments)
> MiddleMan.cache_as(:post_cache, @posts)
>
> OR
> MiddleMan.cache_as :post_cache do
>   Post.find(:all, :include => :comments)
> end
>
> And to retrieve the cache you can either just grab it and if there is
> nothing there it will return nil. Or you can supply a block that the
> contents of will get placed in the cache if the cache is empty. This is for
> fallback in case the cache is empty
>
>
> This will return nil if the cache is empty:
> MiddleMan.cache_get :post_cache
>
> Or the shorthand cache_get
> MiddleMan[:post_cache]
>
> This will refill the cache with the contents of the block if the cache is
> empty. Otherwise it will just return whats in the cache:
> MiddleMan.cache_get :post_cache do
>   Post.find(:all, :include => :comments)
> end
>
>
>  Hope people get some good use out of this plugin. I know it''s
working great
> for me. I would love to hear about how people are using this in their apps
> so tell me about it!
>
>
> Cheers-
> -Ezra
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