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Hi folks, I''ve written a little plugin to use for displaying a block of html over a page while fading out the background. This is like the lightbox.js library, and all it''s related offshoots (thickbox, greybox, etc.). My plugin, Redbox, is not really any better than these others (in fact, it''s less mature, and less tested), but it builds on prototype and scriptaculous,

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: noreply at rubyforge.org <noreply at rubyforge.org> Date: 11-Apr-2007 15:24 Subject: [ mocha-Bugs-5892 ] Using a setup method in test_case_class destroys subsequent test cases To: noreply at rubyforge.org Bugs item #5892, was opened at 2006-09-25 07:49 You can respond by visiting:

Hi, I am kind of lost on how to configure the backgroundrb workers to run from a remote host? Suppose I have my main rails app in 1.2.3.4, and I want my backgroundrb workers to run from a machine with ip 5.6.7.8, what do I put in my backgroundrb.yml file? How will my workers know which database server to load the models from? Thanks, Ram

Hey guys, I just opened up my first installation of BackgrounDRb and so far I love it. I''ll have to share this plugin at my next Ruby Brigade meeting! I have one question though: Is there a way that I can run the BackgrounDRb server in a "test" mode that will reload my changes without having to restart every time? (Similar to how mongrel does this with my

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 have a job that I am starting from a Rails controller in production mode using MiddleMan: MiddleMan.new_worker(:class => :import_ccg_category_worker, :args => { :category_id => @category.id, :remote_category_id => params[:remote_category_id], :description => "Importing CCG products for #{@ category.name}" }) Both of the category ID variables are just basic integers. I

Hi, I''m using backgroundrb 0.2.1 and having problem with worker processes staying around when the rails application does not explicitly delete them. Is there a way to automatically delete the worker processes when it has completed the job? Also does killing the process manually (using kill command) harm the backgroundrb server? I have some occasions where the backgroundrb server just

Hi, I''m using backgroundrb but I have 2 problems with it. First is when I launch a thread Toto from the do_work method. Toto can''t access to a class variable defined before... (undefined method `+'' for nil:NilClass) I suspect that thread is launched when backgroundrb start but the worker not .. My code is : class MonWorker < BackgrounDRb::Worker::RailsBase

Could someone help me with some information on how to handle functional tests that rely on Backgroundrb? I didn''t find anything on the Backgroundrb website not on a couple of Google searches. Links would be fine. I keep getting the following error in my functional tests: "Error while connecting to the backgroundrb server" Thanks Andrew Timberlake andrew at

I override some Rails'' configuration options in my project, like: config.database_configuration_file = "#{RAILS_ROOT}/local/config/ database.yml" But they aren''t picked up in BackgroundRB because Rails ActiveRecord is just initialized directly in MasterWorker#load_rails_env: db_config_file = YAML.load(ERB.new(IO.read("#{RAILS_HOME}/

Hi, I''m a long time backgroundrb user, still stuck using the very ancient original version from Ezra (not even Ezra''s 2.0 version, I''m using the one that didn''t really have a version number). The 2.0 version did very little but crash for me. Anyway I finally got some time set aside to try out this new version you all have been developing.

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

I''ve got some workers that I want to have running all the time. Right now I''m just launching them manually, by requesting a special page in my rails app that includes lines like: MiddleMan.new_worker(:class=> :receiver, :job_key=>:r, :args=>{:sleep_time=>10}) This strikes me as a really weak way to fire up my workers. I basically want to automate things so

Hi Has anyone mocked a call like the following for backgroundrb? MiddleMan.new_worker(:class => :admin_email_worker, :args => params [:email]) I cannot seem to find the correct manner to do it. Would have liked to be able to do MiddleMan.should_receive (:new_worker).with(:class => :admin_email_worker, :args => {"body" => "my message"}) Cheers Shane

I had a worker scheduled to run every minute with backgroundrb_schedules.yml: ebay_runner: :class: :ebay_auction_worker :job_key: :ebay_auction_runner :trigger_type: :cron_trigger :trigger_args: 0 * * * * * * This worker posts an auction to eBay from a queue of auctions every minute. I was having a problem where the worker would run ok the first time, but never any subsequent minutes

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

Hi Folks, I found this thread http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/backgroundrb-devel/2007-March/000790.html on this mailing list that describes pretty much the same behaviour that I experience as well. My problem is, that I have no chance for putting a "sleep 0" in an iteration because I have no Iteration. What I?m doing is executing a stored procedure in a sybase db that could take from

Hi, nice work on BackgrounDrb! I have a question, though: What would be the best way to enable database access for a worker, preferably through ActiveRecord models. Background: I''m trying to write a worker that periodically gets data from an external source, writes it to the database and is then displayed by Rails. Anybody done something like this? Thanks in advance! ciao,

I am new to this list and relatively new to the backgroundrb plugin,. So first i will say hello to everybody here, especially to Ezra Zygmuntowicz! I played a little bit with a dummy worker and so far everything worked well. But now i want to do real work in a worker but now i get that error[1]. It looks like that the constants configured in environment* configs are not available to the worker

I have a scheduled worker that runs every minute, checking for new eBay auctions to post. If it finds an auction, then it posts it. If there are no auctions in the database that are queued up, it simply does nothing. I got the worker to finally run as a scheduled worker, every minute. However, after about 30-45 scheduled runs, it simply stops running. My backgroundrb_schedules.yml file: ------