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Hi, I get this error when starting bgdrb using "rake backgroundrb:start" (on a Mac using bgdrb 0.2.0): /Users/gl/Projects/xxxxx/xxxxx/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/server/lib/ backgroundrb_server.rb:33:in `format_message'': undefined method `strftime'' for "2006-11-22T12:34:18.524572 ":String (NoMethodError) from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/logger.rb:320:in

Seems this mail did not make it to the list for some reason. It contains my solution for the problem with login_engine without having to load the whole Rails environment. Begin forwarded message: > From: G?nter Ladwig <gladwig at gmx.de> > Date: 22. Juni 2006 23:51:18 MESZ > To: backgroundrb-devel at rubyforge.org > Subject: Re: [Backgroundrb-devel] Models and Backgroundrb > > Hi, > > I used this to get LoginEngine to work (add to the top of your > worker): > > $: << "#{RAILS...

Hi, nice work on BackgrounDrb! I have a question, though: What would be the best way to enable database access for a worker, preferably through ActiveRecord models. Background: I''m trying to write a worker that periodically gets data from an external source, writes it to the database and is then displayed by Rails. Anybody done something like this? Thanks in advance! ciao,

Hi, it would be nice to be able to specify workers as singletons. By this I mean that every call to the new_worker method returns the same instance of said worker. This can be done transparently either by adding a new argument to new_worker (something like :singleton => true) or adding a new method, like I did in my installation of BackgrounDrb: def get_worker_by_class(klass)