similar to: System Calls

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

Hi, I am getting my hands on trying the cool BackgrounDrb plugin. Following various discussions and suggestsion, I included "include DRbUndumped" in my ActiveRecord model. However, the following exception occurs after I tried this and hit the page that uses this model. Does anyone know why this is so? Is it possible that an object cannot be DRbUndumped (that would mean, we

Hello, Can someone tell me the best way to make a system call (from within my model) that runs for a while and requires params form my model, specifically attributes of my model. So, I need the correct syntax and also general guidelines for launching the process. Thanks so much. Regards, Doug -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I cant seem to get the io from a child process of a worker back to my client. There most be something academic I''m missing :/. I looked at examples in Pickaxe and Ruby PLEAC library ... and I believe the following should work: # called from within do_work... def backup(repo) logger.info(''SvnWorker backup repo ''+repo) tmp = [] my_project =

I have a BackgrounDRb worker running every 2 minutes. Here''s the basic idea: - events = Event.find_all_pending( 2.minutes ) - while( all events have yet to be processed ) ---- if( Time.now <= event.time_to_process ) ------- fork { process_event } --- end --- sleep( 0.25 ) - end - puts "Done..." Events that need to be processed within the next 2 minutes are loaded and

Hello all, I have some good news to announce. I have made some changes to a local copy of BackgrounDRb 1.0.3 (actually most of the changes were in Packet 0.1.5) and I''ve got it working on Windows. From what I''ve read, this is the first time it''s worked on Windows in a year and a half, since 0.2 was released. In my research I can see that a number of people have asked

On Sep 14, 2006, at 10:25 AM, Michael Siebert wrote: > Hey Ezra, > how is the status of your worker pool? i need some thing like this > ASAP and i can''t get David Lemstra''s QueueWorker to work, so: whats > the status? do you have some "beta" lying around on your hard > drive? I dont want to spend my time on that if you''re coming up >

hi, i am using drb and it is working fine on my local pc on windows.. and after uploading the code to the server it was working for sometime but now it gives me error every time i invoke the process.. error--- uninitialized constant EmailWorker::Notifier - (NameError) /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/ dependencies.rb:477:in `const_missing''

I don''t know whether this is a bug or feature, and I don''t know whether this belongs to Gmailer (http://rubyforge.org/projects/gmailutils) in specific or Rails/Ruby in general. I have an instance method in an ActiveRecord model, that upon a web request using WEBrick, spawns off a thread, in which it invokes Gmailer to perform some processing. What fails is that simply

After upgrading to backgroundrb 0.2.x, Rails barfs lstat errors left and right when using the console or webrick or mongrel on win32. We run our site on a Linux server, so I''m not trying to get backgroundrb to work on a win32 machine. I just want to quietly stop loading itself if it detects that it''s on a win32 machine so that the rest of Rails can continue to load. Most of

This is probably a general ruby question: in one of my models i need to make loads (up to 600 or so) of system calls with the curl command. It''s a fire-and-forget kind of deal - i don''t care, at that particular moment, whether the calls were successful or not and i certainly don''t want to keep the user waiting for the html responses to come back. Is it possible, with a

Has anyone tried hacking the fork out of Webrick''s servlet dispatch code so that ruby -r can be used to debug rails apps? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''m trying to run an external Ruby script from my Rails app. To do this i''m using this function def fork_with_new_connection(config, my_class = ActiveRecord::Base) pid = fork do begin my_class.establish_connection(config) yield ensure my_class.remove_connection end end Process.detach(pid) end Then, within my controller I do this:

Hi all My problem is that: With reference to http://backgroundrb.rubyforge.org/ 1---I have download backgroundrb from http://opensvn.csie.org/ezra/rails/backgroundrb to my vendor/plugin in my application folder. 2-- after that I used the command to run :-rake backgroundrb:setup -- trace From my application

Hi Folks, I want to set up backgroundrb on my laptop to do some tests. But when I run "scripts/background start" I get this error: ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/daemons-1.0.5/lib/daemons/daemonize.rb:160:in `setsid'': the setsid() function is unimplemented on this machine (NotImplementedError) from ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/daemons-1.0.5/lib/daemons/daemonize.rb:160:in

Any plans to get version 1.0 working on Windows? I am getting : script/backgroundrb:24:in `fork'': fork() function is unimplemented on this machine (NotImplementedError) from script/backgroundrb:24 -- Aloha, Kevin English Honolulu, HI 808.271.5125 kenglish at gmail.com www.kenglish77.com

Hi, I''m writing yet another cms and I need to capture the html output of a rendered template including helpers, etc from within my rails app. I plan to use backgroundrb, and I need to be able to capture the output of "pages.browse()" where pages is my controller. I need to pass in the id param. How can I do this besides using Net::HTTP? Using Net::HTTP hangs when

I installed BackgrounDRB as instructed: script/plugin install svn://rubyforge.org//var/svn/backgroundrb rake backgroundrb:setup I started it with: rake backgroundrb:start In a model I make the call: MiddleMan.new_worker :class => :rss_worker In /lib/workers I have file rss_worker.rb, which contains the class: Class RssWorker < BackgrounDRb::Rails def do_work(args) ... end end

Hello Luke, After our services do now successfully restart, we hit now the already opened bug where the restarted service takes over puppetd port if it''s configured to listen. One solution is to remove the listen option but it''s very nice to invoke a puppetrun on the clients from the central server without waiting for its next run. Where you already able to take a look? It

Hi, My environment is composed of ~250 workstations hitting a single puppetmaster server, which has been working fairly well up until now. The most recent change has been a migration of a lot of remote file copy objects which were previously handled with cfengine. client side puppetd calls to the puppetmaster.getconfig method are taking unreasonably long, on the order of 2-3 minutes. It