similar to: Problem with blocking workers

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

Hi, I have backgroundrb running to decouple the execution of massive business logic from an ActionWebservice request. The service is designed to take some configuration parameters and fire a lot of background workers to do the requested work. Due to performance reasons I want to limit the number of workers to a maximum number of 30. But when I start a configuration that requires for example

Hi Folks, it?s quite a while that I used BackgrounDRb and I was hoping that I get the chance on working with it again, as I read so many promising things here in the list! When I last worked with it (Rel. 0.21) there was no way of running it under Windows. Is this restriction still valid? I hope not, as I desperately need to get it working with InstantRails in a Windows environment for some new

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

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

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 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}/

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

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

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

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 folks, I''ve got some BackgroundRB workers to handle a long running task (triggered by a user) that work very well on my staging server, and I just wanted to check to see if anyone had any advice before I put it into production. When I start the worker (which performs an import), I write a record to my database for each import. The record gets updated by the worker to

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

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

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

Is there something special I need to do to access session data in a worker? I''m using an AR session store. I''ve been working with Ezra''s tutorial, modifying it a little here and there to figure it out. So I changed the progress bar to a simple count-down in the worker which sends back the count to display in the view. No big deal. But if I try to access session

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 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, it would be nice to be able to specify workers as singletons. By this I mean that every call to the new_worker method returns the same instance of said worker. This can be done transparently either by adding a new argument to new_worker (something like :singleton => true) or adding a new method, like I did in my installation of BackgrounDrb: def get_worker_by_class(klass)