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I need to know what controller and action the user is currently in to do various things in my layouts/application.rhtml file. Isn''t there is a better way than: <% if params[:controller] == "whatever" && params[:action] == "whatever" %>some html<% end %> I know in the controllers you can just use controller_name, but that is not provided

I am pretty confident that mailers do not work in backgroundrb. Can anyone confirm this? Because when I try to do Notifier.deliver_some_method I get an error saying it cant find the templates for my email. The funny thing is that when I run script/ runner Notifier.deliver_some_method it works just fine. Any ideas? Thank You, Ben Johnson E: bjohnson at contuitive.com O: 800-341-6826 M:

I have workers that need to be created when I run rake backgroundrb:start. Where do I put this code? Thanks for your help. Thank You, Ben Johnson E: bjohnson at contuitive.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/backgroundrb-devel/attachments/20060731/d201c052/attachment.html

I made a worker that run an infinite loop and does the following: while true @logger << "logging #{Time.now}" sleep 2 end In my secong console I did: tail log/backgroundrb.log -f This is so I could see the line getting added to the log every 2 seconds. Then in my other console I started script/console and created a new worker. Then killed it with

Is there a way to determine if attributes were changed? Let''s say in the before_save or after_save method? Thanks for your help. Thank You, Ben Johnson E: bjohnson@contuitive.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060711/442b20d2/attachment.html

If there is an exception raised in my worker I rescue it and throw it into the log. This is decent, but it would really help to find out more information. Like the line number, the stack trace, etc. Is this possible? Thanks for your help. Thank You, Ben Johnson E: bjohnson at contuitive.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

I have a simple question, but can''t seem to figure this out. I added an in place editor field and didn''t like how it didn''t use the save method. It uses the update_attribute method which does not run validation, etc. So I just added the method in my controller myself: def set_event_url begin @event = Event.find params[:id] @event.url =

Let''s say I wanted to find 3 products from my database and put them in the layouts/application.rhtml view. Where do I find these 3 products? Do I just do it in application.rhtml? <% for product in Product.find(:all, :limit => 3) %> Because I was under the impression that you really don''t want to do this in your views. You should do this in your controllers and

Is it possible to make the process priority higher for backgroundrb? Thank You, Ben Johnson E: bjohnson at contuitive.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/backgroundrb-devel/attachments/20060819/7a2e6d1b/attachment.html

I am in my rails project directory and I ran the following command: script/plugin install svn://rubyforge.org//var/svn/backgroundrb and I get this: sh: svn: command not found Any idea how I can install backgroundrb or what the problem is? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank You, Ben Johnson E: bjohnson at contuitive.com O: 800-341-6826 M: 817-229-4258 -------------- next part

I just updated backgroundrb to the latest version, and now I get this: uninitialized constant MiddleMan /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/ active_support/dependencies.rb:123:in `const_missing'' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/ active_support/dependencies.rb:131:in `const_missing''

I have a simple question. Let''s say I do this in one of my models: after_save drb_conn.some_method(self) end When that object gets over to the background process is it the exact same as?.... Model.find some_id #in the background process As far as my background process is concerned passing the object is not any different than passing the id and using the find method? Because

I noticed in the BackgroundRB class in the delete_worker method there is a line: if @jobs[key].respond_to? :thread For some reason this is returning false for me, it gets down to this line and returns false, not killing the thread. Any idea why this is returning false? Thanks for your help. Thank You, Ben Johnson E: bjohnson at contuitive.com -------------- next part -------------- An

Does rails have a nifty utility for creating javascript drop down menus? Thanks for the help. Thank You, Ben Johnson E: bjohnson@contuitive.com O: 800-341-6826 M: 817-229-4258 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060709/869e8e30/attachment-0001.html

My application has multiple things on the interface that need to be updated periodically. Some things every second, others not so much. Some of these things are global, meaning they are on the interface at all times, and some of these things are view specific. So what I figured I would do is add the periodically_call_remote function for the global elements and another one for the view

Does after_save in a model delete if an exception is raised in there? I simply did def after_save raise ''hmmm'' end and it raised the exception but there was nothing in the database. I removed that entire method and its in the database. Is this correct? Thank You, Ben Johnson E: bjohnson@contuitive.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was

Since MiddleMan is an uninitialized constant in a worker how do you create new workers inside a worker? Thank You, Ben Johnson E: bjohnson at contuitive.com O: 800-341-6826 M: 817-229-4258 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/backgroundrb-devel/attachments/20060731/75a77fa6/attachment-0001.html

I figured instead of asking a question I would share some useful knowledge I learned this week. Maybe you already know this, maybe you dont. If you use backgroundrb to run an "infinite" loop, or create many threads, or do quite a bit of processor intensive tasks, and you notice that its running kind of slow, it might not be a bad idea to have multiple backgroundrb processes

Does any have any idea why I would get: Mysql::Error: Too many connections I am creating new threads in my background process. I know allow_concurrency is set to true. Does this create a new database connection when a new thread is created? Because what I''m doing is similar to this: @threads[model.id] = Thread.new do end I also kill off these threads and over write some of the

Am i wrong or do ActiveRecord observers not work in mongrel? Is there a work around for this? I am 100% sure of this because in my observer i put raise "whatever". Whenever I try update the model using the mongrel server I get a successful save. If I do it in webrick I get an exception raised. Any ideas what I should do? Because webrick is pretty annoying to work with. Thank