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Hi there, do you agree that for having scheduled tasks in Rails, the leanest solution is the following? - Create a controller with an action for each task - Implement the logic of the task as controller code - Set up a cron job at the OS level that uses wget to invoke the URL of this controller/action at the appropriate time intervals Advantages: 1) full access to all your Rails objects just as

I''ve been using script/runner to add and delete files from the database in response to inotify events. This works in theory, but is too slow to keep up with a large number of events in succession; I''m suspecting that the bottleneck is that script/runner has a huge startup cost. One thing I thought of was to queue inotify events, and call script/runner once a minute to clear the

Hi, Going through the archive, and just keeping a general watch on this list seems to indicate that there are some issues using scheduling with backgroundrb. I need a worker that will perform some actions on an hourly interval. These actions will require access to several of the models in my application. I am currently using backgroundrb to handle processing of files, where I spawn a worker to

So, what''s the status of this project? I''m a little confused. The documentation at http://backgroundrb.rubyforge.org seems out of date. It refers to http://svn.devjavu.com/backgroundrb/tags/release-0.2.1, which doesn''t work. All I want is a way to easily set up tasks that should run periodically. Some stuff should run every 10 seconds, some stuff once a day, etc.

We are building a web-based application with Ruby on Rails and MySQL backend. The client now wants us to add various workflow features that will eventually expand into SOAP web services. These workflow features include tasks such as automatically sending reminders for due tasks, or if a particular set of information hasn''t been logged by a certain time to automatically send an email

Friends- I''m happy to annouce the first alpa release of BackgrounDRb. This is a small framework for managing long running background tasks that allows for ajax progress bars and more. It also serves as an Application wide cache and context store for when you need something like sessions but shared between users and multiple backend processes like fcgi''s or mongrels.

There are so many ways to do cron jobs in Rails (Backgroundrb, script/ runner, etc.) but I am wondering what would be the best to use in production, just for sending out email/SMS notifications? For example, an email automatically gets sent a day before the due date of a project milestone. Thanks for the help! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because

I''ve been using backgroundrb since back in March 2007 or so. It''s been working mostly OK for me, but since the old version doesn''t seem to work out of the box with rails 2.0 for me, I decided to test out the latest version. So, I''m looking at the scheduling, and trying to figure out the best option for what I want to do. What I have is a set of workers that

Hi there I''m considering Rails for a new web-application planned to be built from scratch. The application has an extensive web front, and in fact most of the application is interfaced through that front and engaged through clients'' HTTP requests (i.e. the conventional way web-applications and "dynamic web-sites" work). However, some essential parts are supposed to

Hi Folks, I have been working to fix BackgrounDRb memory usage as such. Ruby1.8 GC isn''t fork friendly and it seems to use a lot of memory because when you fork, it sets a bit in all the objects in global scope which causes OS to all pages in child process. A classic solution is to use fork and exec, rather than just fork. Its working and pretty stable, but you loose ability to pass

I''ve been having a terrible time with the backgroundrb scheduler. The issues I''m having is that the scheduled actions aren''t ran at all and if they do, the process stays around forever. I''m using the backgroundrb as a nightly cron to run some accounting operations. questions: 1. How can I have the process destroyed after the worker completes? 2. Any idea on

Hey, quick question: what am I missing that I always need to pass the ''--rakelibdir vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/tasks'' option to rake? thanks, James

Hi, I''m new. ;-) I creating a little rails app, that will crawl the web on a regular basis and then show the results. The crawling will be scheduled, likely a cron job. I can''t wrap my head around where to put my crawler. It doesn''t seem to fit. An example: Model - News Story Controllers - Grabs a story from the DB, Sort the Stories, Search the Stories etc. View -

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

Hi, I''ve been using backgroundrb with some success up to now, but now when I do the start or setup tasks they just fail silently. Nothing in the log, no .pid file, and nothing in the process list. Rake with -trace just says, ** Invoke backgroundrb:setup (first_time) ** Execute backgroundrb:setup Any hints on how I can get more verbosity, or thoughts on what might be happening? (This

hey guys, i am writing a couple of actions which are only used with an xhr. I ''protect'' them all against a direct access with the ''verify'' method in the controller verify :only => ..., :xhr => true it would be cool if the system would automatically recognize the xhr actions and protect them ... i want to postfix methods with ''_xhr'' and

Hi all, We use mongrel behind apache (using mod_proxy_balancer) to run an internal app for our business. Lately we''ve been seeing frequent errors from some of our mongrel processes. [Sun Dec 16 08:48:47 2007] [error] [client <CLIENT1>] (70007)The timeout specified has expired: proxy: error reading status line from remote server 127.0.0.1, referer:

Hello, until now I allways used script/runner for running Rails cron jobs I wonder is there is any benefit (except not having any fake runner model in the models directory) to use a rake task instead in lib/tasks Thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Hi,all ! I would like to control my application by time, without requests. How can I do this ? Is any method for this purpose ? For exemple : every hour I would like to do something on my data base in automatic way. And of course my whole application shouldn''t sleep in the meanwhile. Have anybody some idea ? Thank for help ! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

This is interesting. The default rspec rake tasks generated by Hoe give you an rspec.rake file that looks like: > begin > require ''spec'' > rescue LoadError > require ''rubygems'' > require ''spec'' > end > So far so good. When you invoke rake to do something, say check_manifest > rake check_manifest > You