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Hi all, I want to execute certain ruby script periodically in my rails application running on windows platform. I wanted to try out backgroundrb, but it seems that the support for Windows is deprecated with release 0.2.0 of BackgrounDRb. The latest release is 0.2.1 & the plugin still doesnt support windows platform. Can anyone throw more light on this? Also, can anyone suggest any

Forgive me if this has been addressed somewhere, but I have searched and can''t come up with anything. I am basically trying to distribute several web page scraping tasks among different threads, and have the results from each added to an Array which is ultimately returned by the backgroundrb worker. Here is an example of what I''m trying to do in a worker method: pages =

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