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I''m working on a RoR project and a requirement has popped up that would required certain actions to happen at certain time intervals (as opposed to having a user initiate the action). Is there anything similar to Java''s Quartz library, *nix cron, or anything of the like for Rails? I''m certainly willing to help with/test Ruby code if someone on the list is already

Hey all, I''m working on a site for a client that has a scedule im trying to display that pulls the next events for the upcoming Sunday from a MySQL table....The table stores the event date as mm/dd/yyyy. I''ve tried to think of everyway possible to get this thing to change after every sunday to show the next sunday''s events, but I end up doing it manually... Is it

Hi this is a newbie question that should be easy enough for somebody to answer, I''m horrible at this web server configuration stuff. I''m running Rails on Fedora Core 5 with Lighttpd and MySql. I''ve created a rails application ''logapp''. I have an entry in /etc/hosts like... 127.0.0.1 logapp So when I point my browser to ''logapp''

Ok, It's a lame name but it was the best I could come up with after spinning around in a desk chair for a few minutes. Here is the general idea behind it. Once, in an interview, Steve Balmber, the CEO of Microsoft threw some standard MS FUD out about Linux being a poor choice becaue each distro tends to "mutate" linux and has no solid direction I thought "Wouldn't

hi, i am trying to grasp some concepts about mongrel, rails, and backgroundrb on how they all work in terms of threads and such. is there a book about distributed ruby and processes? i havent seen any on amazon yet... from my blog reading, i have some questions.... rails can handle 1 request at a time and can buffer to a certain extent? when mongrel instances are created, a copy of the rails

Hi all, i know that for each virtual machine i can set up a number of vcpu. But if i want to give only a % of the real CPU? For example: how can i set up a virtual domain for using only 20% of the real CPU? is it possible? Ty in advance D. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users

Hi, i wanted to know how you handle case when classes or define need to communicate between them. For exemple i got an ftpd define and a apachevhost define. Both need to know the path where the vhost is set and this path is defined by the ftpuser home''s directory. How can i ask information from other define or other classes ? we allready seen that tag are not reliable as they