Hey all, I''m using BackgrounDRb to do some offline tasks, and the creators of BackgrounDRb have created a worker class that allows you access to your ActiveRecord model objects. The problem is that to do so it boots the Rails framework for each worker, which can incur quite a bit of memory overhead as well as longer startup time. So, I thought that the solution would be to create another Rails environment, call it "background", and exclude all of the frameworks I don''t need. Basically all you need is ActiveRecord and ActiveSupport, which would allow me to exclude ActionController, ActionView, ActionMailer, and ActionWebService. However, I quickly found out that you can''t set config.framework from the environment-specific configuration files (production.rb, development.rb, etc), because Rails::Initializer calls load_frameworks before it calls load_environment, which means that by the time you get chance to set the frameworks from your specific environment it''s too late. So, the best solution I came up with is: config.frameworks -= [ :action_view, :action_mailer ] if ENV[''RAILS_ENV''] =''background'' within the main environment.rb. This seems kind of hacky, though. Any better ideas? Also, is it possible to exclude ActionController as well? When I try to eliminate it, I get errors because ActiveSupport tries to extend ActionController on load. I suppose I could trap and ignore the errors, but I don''t like the sound of that either... Thanks! Matt -- Thermal Creative http://blog.thermalcreative.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---