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Hi, * Background I develop rails app with backgrounDRb where one of its parent folders has a space in its name. * Problem rake backgroundrb:start and rake backgroundrb:stop do not work * Analysis This is because the line for start and stop in backgroundrb_tasks.rake do not quote #{scripts_src} * Patch Quote the #{scripts_src} in the two lines so they become

Friends- I''m happy to annouce the first alpa release of BackgrounDRb. This is a small framework for managing long running background tasks that allows for ajax progress bars and more. It also serves as an Application wide cache and context store for when you need something like sessions but shared between users and multiple backend processes like fcgi''s or mongrels.

OK I know whats happening. Your while loop completes and calls kill on the worker before your task_progress controller method ever gets called> So the worker is deleted and when you try to access it from rails you get an error because there is no longer a worker at that job key. The kill method is meant to be used within a worker that you fire and forget. If you want to get the