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Hi, I''ve been having some issues integrating bdrb on a cruisecontrolrb server It''s related to the way we stop the bdrb server. The thing is, right now when we stop the process we are killing the parent of the group of the process. This is ok if you''re running script/backgroundrb stop directly from the console, but if I''m running this from another process,

Hi, we are trying to use BDRB for background processing of long-running reports, and have two issues - one is that worker does not see our Report class from Rails, throws a: /var/apps/ror_trunk/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/server/master_worker.rb:22:in `load'': undefined class/module Report (ArgumentError) from

Hi there, We run several (3-4) Rails servers behind the reverse proxy / load balancing web server serving the single application. All Rails instances share the same database and use the database as a session storage. Memcached is also part of the picture. I''m looking into using Backgroundrb for some large uploads / parsing task that provide progress status updates (via ajax calls).

I use BDRb to process RSS feeds for users on my site (http://feedflix.com). I have a batch job that queries the DB for records that haven''t been updated in the last so many hours and kicks off a background job for each of them. If N records are returned by the DB, N background jobs gets queued and get done serially. As long as N is 255 or under, everything works like a charm.

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 #

I have two workers (ie two files in my RAILS_ROOT/lib/workers directory) on my Rails app. When I run a top on my box, I see *three* processes called packer_worker_r. Shouldn''t I just be having two? What is the third process for? Here is an extract of the output from my top command. The PIDs are 7084, 7085 and 7083. ============================================ PID USER PR NI VIRT

Hi, Thanks for the help getting the new backgroundrb working, things are working fabulously now. I have two questions: 1) I have a few basic methods I need available on all my workers in order to communicate properly with my application... it seems to make the most sense right now to subclass BackgrounDRb::MetaWorker, or make a mixin module, because I''m actually extending some

My Rails site uses BackgroundDRb and I have a couple of questions: 1. Can someone point me to some sample code/examples for how to use thread_pool? The website doc says to add a line ====== pool_size 10 ====== in my Worker class which seems straightforward. I wasn''t able to understand this part though: ========= thread_pool.defer(wiki_scrap_url) { |wiki_url| scrap_wikipedia(wiki_url) }

Hi, i''m going to implement a syndication-service, which will get lists in xml with some meta-data an enclosed video files, which will get encoded at the end. The syndication run will be startet every five minutes of a full hour. So i thought to build 4 Worker. One for checking which feeds to syndicate (syndication_worker) at a specific time, one for processing the list

Hi, New BackgrounDrb user struggling for a couple of days to get things up an going. System: Ruby 1.8.6 Packet 0.1.5 chronic 0.2.3 BackgrounDrb 1.0.3 (downloaded 4/02/08 and 4/03/08) I installed the packet and chronic gems as per instructions. I used git to download BDrb as per instructions and ran the rake setup script. When I run script/backgroundrb from my rails app main directory, I get

Hey there bdrb''ers! I have been so very busy with http://engineyard.com that I have not had time to complete the new release of backgroundrb. But I have done substantial work towards it. It is basically an entirely new beast with a complete rethinking of how it works. I have put up a zip file of the new code base in the hopes that some folks will be able to start playing with

This might be a really simple question, with a simple solution. I have two rails apps running on the same box. Right now I am starting two Backgroundrb servers (11006 and 11007). Wondering if it might be possible to run only one and have the second app point to the first app''s server? TIA, Kit

I was using an older version of backgroundrb and today I started to play with the most recent release. First up, I''d like to say, thanks so much for this library and thanks for making it more stable. From the looks of things, I think it''s going to be easier to use now than it was several months ago when I first started using it. I''d like to make sure I''m using

Hello all, I get this intermittent error saying OpenURI::HTTPError. At the bottom of the email is what is reported in my backgroundrb_server_<port>.log file. The process_netflix_reviews method is parsing (in the background) Netflix''s RSS feeds. This error also pretty much brings down the BDRb process and to recover, I am forced to do a ./script/backgroundrb stop

Hi there, In the latest releases bdrb attempts to load all models during startup routine. We have models that depend on the particular RUBY_PLATFORM but they live in the same models directory. It seems that the inability to load them stops bdrb. Could the models requiring / loading be done one demand, the same as Rails does? thanks, emil

I have bdrb successfully set up and running in a local project. It''s doing two things: 1) processing large csv files and using ActiveRecord to insert 2) sending large batches of emails using ActionMailer In development both work well. I see my ActionMailer emails in the log (though it''s the development.log -- odd?) On the production server csv processing works well, but

Hi- Danny Burkes here from Lingr (http://www.lingr.com). We''re evaluating bdrb and so far, so good. It''s deployed in staging now and seems to be working fine. I have a couple of questions that I couldn''t find references to in the archive, so here it goes- 1. Is there any way to do a "graceful" stop of bdrb? What I mean is, I want to stop bdrb,

Hi Folks, BackgrounDRb is a Ruby job server and scheduler. Its main intent is to be used with Ruby on Rails applications for offloading long-running tasks. Since a Rails application blocks while serving a request it is best to move long-running tasks off into a background process that is divorced from http request/response cycle. This new release of BackgrounDRb is also modular and can be used

Hi all, i was using bdrb a while ago and it wasn''t stable enough in version 0.2.1 for doing the job - it loss jobs or did execute only the first one invoked and so on. Now i gave the new version a try and i found a bug at playing around. When i start a worker_method over the normal Unix scheduler bdrb will start as much as possible the worker_method after the :end-time is reached.

We have a fairly expensive task that we''d rather not schedule too many instances of in parallel. Couldn''t get pool_size to limit the amount of workers, and I figure that''s hardly optimal anyway, so would like to have the work queued up for a single named worker instead, running as soon as possible. Using MiddleMan.schedule_worker() with :job_key does start off a