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Does anyone know if there exists a Task Scheduler module in Ruby on Rails like in TurboGears below? http://www.turbogears.org/preview/docs/scheduler.html I''m using Ruby on Rails for a multiplayer online game and I want to set checks at regular intervals to see if users are still logged in etc. Thanks in advance -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''m trying to do the tutorial at http://www.infoq.com/articles/BackgrounDRb. A little more than half-way through it says "Upon instalation, the plugin writes a config file into RAILS_ROOT/config/backgroundrb.yml." It didn''t happen for me. I installed the plugin with: ruby script\plugin install svn:\\rubyforge.org//var/svn/backgroundrb It added a bunch of files,

Hi, I have my rails sites tricked out with capistrano, and backgroundrb, so I can easily use the ant tasks, but I would like to be able to start and stop backgroundrb from within rails. I have a few reasons for this: 1. Using fastcgi, backgroundrb would start under the apache user and the same mod_security context as apache, instead of my developer account which has many more privileges. 2.

I''ve used Railscron in a couple instances, and I liked that fact that it has a rake task for checking the status of the process. Many times I use it in the admin interface to allow me to double check that everything is up and running. I couldn''t find one for backgroundrb, so here is a simple one. Probably obvious to everyone, and no doubt there is a better way to do it:

Hi I have previously used railscron for server-side manipulation of the database but had a heap of trouble working with it. BackgrounDRB was suggested to me by a friend. I upload some files via acts_as_attachment and these go lie in a dir structure that i desire. What I want from the background process is to periodically (not user initiated) do some file-structure manipulation i.e. I want to

Ezra, Sorry for inundating the list. In using the autostart, repeat_every, and first_run, I noticed a behaviour I didn''t expect. I would like the job to run starting at 2am, and then every 24 hours. So I set first_run to Time.now.beginning_of_day + 2.hours, and repeat_every to 24.hours. The problem is if backgroundrb starts up at 6am (due to a code change or server bump), then the

In my app i upload a file, convert it with ffmpeg, delete the original and make a small thumbnail out of the big thumbnail ffmpeg makes. At the moment it seems like these actions are tripping over each other - how can i make the app wait until ffmpeg has completed it''s output before doing the next thing? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Has anyone out there implemented a star rating system as described by Dave Naffis? http://www.naffis.com/blog/articles/2006/08/31/rails-ajax-star-rating-system He really has an excellent HOWTO to set this up. Unfortunately I see problems in IE. The overlayed, filled-in rating stars are not overlaying over top of the blank stars. The overlay is starting about 2.5 stars right of where it should.

I, like many of you, have been searching for a good way to handle running long processes in Rails. So I rolled my own solution. I really want feedback! (I''ve tested this on very simple hello world examples, so don''t use it on anything production yet) . Grab the plugin: http://opensvn.csie.org/rails_cron Here''s the README: OVERVIEW ======== RailsCron is a way to

Hi, I''m trying to use RailsCron but keeping getting an error when I try to run it. I''m a beginner, so please use small words :) -bash-2.05b$ rake cron_start (in /home/jake/rails_sites/testsite) Syntax error: "&" unexpected The little bit I know about my environment: - RailsCron installed as a plug in (not gem, cause I''m on a shared host) - Debian Linux

I just received an e-mail from V.K. Quach and I am not really sure what it meant. So if anyone can help me I would really appreciate it. I just sent out a message to the list regarding a newbie question. The reply I received was as follows: Ich bin bis 17. Okt. 2003 abwesend. In dringenden F?llen wenden Sie sich bitte an Hr. Kay Vetter (770) oder Hr. Sascha Huter (778) V. K. Quach Thank

I received feedback from some of you, saying that it would be cool if RailsCron was even easier to manage. So I implemented a graceful start/restart inside of the plugin''s init.rb. If you don''t like it, comment it out and send me the feedback. Also, I finished an update to RailsCron that allows you to attach asynchronous processing methods to your ActiveRecord models. i.e.:

Hi, I would like to start running a background procedure once a user logs in to his account on the website. For this I am considering using the RailsCron object. However, I am not able to download it. I am new to Rails. Can someone give me the excat command I should use to get RailsCron? Can someone suggest a better way of running a procedure in the background? Thanks -Yash -- Posted via

Hello backgroundrb-devel my name is Teeranit Ruangdet. I''m fairly new to Ruby on Rails so please bear with me here. I''m currently on a project where I need to import a whole bunch of records from spreadsheet(.csv) and save them in the database. My problem is that while I''m importing (huge file...say 5000 employees), no one else can access the website (it basically block

Hi, Anyone out there has any luck on getting mythv or freevo to work on centos 3. I am planning to setup mine pretty soon. Thanks,

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

Hi everybody, I'm looking for information about using GlusterFS with ZFS. I got information that talked about a sort of incompatibility between the both technologies because of unsupported xattr feature in ZFS. What are the latest news about this ? Thank you in advance.

Hi, I am writing a client-server rails app. The client and server maintain similar databases. Periodically, I would like them to synchronize their databases. For this, in the application, once the user logs in, I want to spawn a background process at the client that first sends the client''s new data and then receives the server''s new data. I am thinking of using RailsCron for

Got another question. It''s unclear to me what "every" means in the background function and how it relates to the RailsCron.create "every": >From README: RailsCron.create( :command => "Object.do_something()", :start => 2.minutes.from_now, :every => 12.hours, # default: 1.day :finish =>

Hi, Is the development of Rails Cron still active? most of the blog articles about it are unavailable and it hasn''t been updated for a long time. -- Abdur-Rahman Advany http://blog.railsdevelopment.com/