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...und_server.log. To also, to make sure that backgroundrb threads doesn''t eat my excpetion my code looks like this: def do_work(args) begin logger.info "Starting the Yahoo feed worker on : #{Time.now}" yahoo_url = "http://finance.yahoo.com/rss/headline?s=" symbol_list = NasdaqSymbols.find_all() symbol_list.each do|sym| temp_sym = sym.symbol.strip temp_url = yahoo_url + temp_sym get_feeds(temp_url,temp_sym) rescue next end rescue logger.info $! logger.info $!.backtrace end end ^^^ could be naive, but the point is, why worke...

Hi We have a RoR application which needs to get the contents of RSS feeds. The application opens HTTP connections, but the problem is that we have frequently Timeout::Error because of feeds are not available. It seems it''not possible to reduce the time of timeout in Ruby... So, I''m wondering if there is way to solve this with Backgroundrb. Best regards, Julien

I am sure..again I am missing something, but I am trying to start a worker, when backgroundrb starts and it doesn''t seem to work. Here is my config/backgroundrb_schedules.yml file: feed_worker: class: feed_worker job_key: feed_worker_key worker_method: do_work trigger_args: repeat_interval: 20.minutes I even tried this from Rails controller: # def start_feed_worker #

He folks- First off thanks to everyone for helping to make this plugin work better for all of us. Its nice to have a bunch of people testing and adding features. I would like to ask for people to post some examples workers. I would really like to get a few more workers to distribute with the plugin. Especially ones that a lot of people seem to need like Email workers. So if you are