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...Dir["#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/framework"] I get this: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:249:in `load_missing_constant'': Expected RAILS_HOME/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/server/master_worker.rb to define MasterWorker (LoadError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:453:in `const_missing'' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:465:in `const_missing'' from RAILS_HOME/vendor/p...

I override some Rails'' configuration options in my project, like: config.database_configuration_file = "#{RAILS_ROOT}/local/config/ database.yml" But they aren''t picked up in BackgroundRB because Rails ActiveRecord is just initialized directly in MasterWorker#load_rails_env: db_config_file = YAML.load(ERB.new(IO.read("#{RAILS_HOME}/ config/database.yml")).result) Is this an intentional design decision, or just simplest approach tha''s "good enough?" Personally, I''d prefer that my Rails'' environm...

Hi mongrelians, I found myself with an unloaded full production server recently which presented an opportunity to run some performance tests against Mongrel and nginx. I thought this list might have some interest in the results of my tinkering! I actually ran two sets of studies, and Wayne Seguin kindly provided a lot of guidance and support in getting them running. Thanks Wayne! Also,

I''m working on an application that does extensive database searching. These searches can take a long time, so we have been working on moving the searches to a backgroundrb worker task so we can provide a sexy AJAX progress bar, and populate the search results as they are available. All of this seems to work fine until the size of the search results gets sufficiently large, when we start