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Hi, I''m using backgroundrb to get RSS feeds and pass them back to the controller. I''m using the Ruby RSS library to parse the feed, which returns an RSS object. After that I pass the object into the results hash, but that''s when this error occurs. Basically, this is what I have: rss = RSS::Parser.parse(response.body) results[:feed] = rss # error! 20061120-15:46:19

Hello, I''m currently using backgroundrb to fetch feeds for an RSS aggregator. So as you can imagine, backgroundrb is a very critical piece of the app. I was wondering what a recommended pool size would be for this kind of application. Ideally, I''d like to have as many processes in the pool as possible, but what would be too many? Thank you, David -------------- next part

Hello, I''m using the scheduler to create several reusable workers of the same type, .e.g., RSSWorker, so I can avoid the overhead of initializing new processes (as suggested by Ezra to my previous question). Creating new workers through the external yaml seems pretty straightforward, but my question is is there a way to call these workers without using the job key? Currently, to use

Hello everyone, I''m stuck with this very obscure error whenever I try to create a new worker. My worker is a subclass of BackgrounDRb::Worker::RailsBase, and if you follow the stack trace below, you can tell that the error occurs while trying to load Rails. There is no problem starting up the server, by the way. Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this? I didn''t have