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1. Whenever you ask BackgrounDRb to perform a particular task using: MiddleMan.ask_work(:worker => :rss_worker,:worker_method => :fetch_url, :data => "www.google.com") Your task would be performed then and there. But, if your worker is busy, task won''t be queued, except in socket buffer. And your request may get lost. This isn''t generally a problem with tasks that is being scheduled through scheduler, b...

Hi Folks, We are glad to announce shiny new release of BackgrounDRb, which will soon become 1.0. A quick summary of changes: - BackgrounDRb is no londer DRb, its based on event driven network programming library packet ( http://www.packet.googlecode.com ) . - Since we moved to packet, many nasty thread issues, result hash corruption issues are totally gone. Lots of work has went in making