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Hi, Is it possible to start a worker with job_key and then ask_status of that specific worker with the job_key? MiddleMan.ask_work(:worker => :auth_worker, :job_key=>''1'', :worker_method => :auth) and then MiddleMan.ask_status(:worker => :auth_worker, :job_key=>''1'') >From my testing of the new backgroundrb, asking status using job key

...ge that XListFontsWithInfo is not thread-safe. _XReply drops the Display lock, so the value of dpy->request may change before _XReply is called again. Jamey Sharp discovered this by inspection a few years ago. * Fix Bug #8622, by fixing the response processing order for threaded apps. process_responses (the common code for _XReply, _XReadEvents, and _XEventsQueued) now handles responses in order, by adding condition variables to the list of outstanding requests in dpy->xcb->pending_requests, and blocking on them when those requests should get processed, to allow _XReply to process t...

I tried to upgrade my existing application to RC2 last night. Like many, I use this mostly for running scheduled tasks. For the moment, I''ve abandoned the effort, but am looking forward to being able to use this. Feedback below: First, the reason I was looking forward to this upgrade was to use the threaded scheduler. I have an application with long-running tasks. I found that