similar to: Backgroundrb-devel Digest, Vol 9, Issue 1

I have noticed that occasionally (about 50% of the time) when i deploy (using capistrano) my app to a production server, i have to ssh into the box and manually stop and start backgroundrb to get it to load my workers. this is my basic setup i have 2 workers: lib/workers/mp3_worker.rb => takes a hash of params to downsample an mp3 lib/workers/flv_worker.rb => takes a has of

I''ve been having a terrible time with the backgroundrb scheduler. The issues I''m having is that the scheduled actions aren''t ran at all and if they do, the process stays around forever. I''m using the backgroundrb as a nightly cron to run some accounting operations. questions: 1. How can I have the process destroyed after the worker completes? 2. Any idea on

Hi All, It might be lack of sleep, but I am struggling to accurately limit our pool size. It seems like I can specify it on the server with the -s command line option and also on the client via the YAML pool_size. Is that right? Which one wins? Our problem is that we are getting about 40 threads on each backgroundrb box and it''s flooring our db and each bgrb box. We want around 8.

Hi there, I''ve been experimenting with implementing BackgroundDRb in my rails app but am running into some problems. The primary problem I''m getting is in cleaning up worker threads, or getting any kind of response out of worker threads. If try using the response function/hash in my Worker the worker will not execute reporting that response is an unknown variable or function.

I have the next including files structure : - controller fileaA.rb including line (#8): require "fileB"... - /lib/fileB.rb with main header: load ''backgroundrb/worker.rb'' load ''backgroundrb/ worker_rails.rb'' class FileB <

Hi everyone, I noticed that script/backgroudrb requires config/environment which causes the backgroundrb server as well as the log worker to ''bloat'' to 35MB each. I am kind of sensitive to memory issues, so I patched the code and essentially moved the require of environment from script/backgroundrb to the meta_worker. Everything seems good and now both backgroundrb server and

Hello Folks- I am really happy to announce the release of BackgrounDRb 0.2.0 . This is a complete rewrite and re-architecture of this codebase. I want to thank skaar for all of his hard work. I put out a call for help with the new architecture and skaar stepped up bigtime. I had already written the new scheduler and cron compatible syntax and moved to multi process architecture. But he

What are people are doing when they need to deploy a new code base? You can''t just restart backgroundrb, because then you lose any long-running backgroundrb processes. But then you''d conceivably have to wait several hours for all your procs to complete before pushing out the new code base. I was originally thinking that during code deploys, we''d start up a second

Hi, I''m having a problem where connections started through BackgrounDRb::MiddleManDRbObject.init are not stopped, resulting in an ever growing established connections between my Mongrels and remote backgroundrbs I added DRb.stop_service to my code executed after requests that init MiddleManDRbObjects but that does not help. Any ideas? Thanks, Robert Bjarnason

I have a big report to produce from a Rails app that takes several minutes to put together. I hoped backgroundrb would be able to pull together all the ActiveRecord stuff in the background then throw it back to Rails for rendering. It seems, however, that I can''t pass an array of ActiveRecord objects from the worker back to Rails. Do I have that right? Another possibility was to do

Hey Guys, In the readme for Backgroundrb it says that windows support has been depcreated for this version, but then it goes on to mention how to use it in Windows. So I''m not sure if it should be running on windows or not, so I''ll ask anyway. Also, I''m new to ruby and I''m also new to server administration, so I apologize if my questions are pretty

The new backgroundrb seemed to me to be markedly slower than the old one. So, I ran a "side-by-side" comparison test using a worker that I had written which parses a CSV file and loads the results into a database. The results? The latest version appears to take twice as long to run the same code as the previous version. Has anyone else experienced speed issues with the new

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

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

i ran rake backgroundrb:setup and modified the default config/backgroundrb.yml file as: --- port: "22223" timer_sleep: 60 load_rails: true environment: production host: localhost database_yml: config/database.yml acl: deny: all allow: localhost 127.0.0.1 order: deny,allow and my database.yml production: adapter: mysql database: chip2_production username: xxxxx password:

I''m just getting started wtih backgroundrb, and unfortunately hit a snag right away... I''m running the latest releases of rails, backgroundrb, slave and daemons. I created a simple worker class, using the generator, which currently does nothing but print the arguments that are passed to do_work. I''m running backgroundrb using ''./script/backgroundrb

Greetings! Has anybody tried running the ''old'' version of BackgrouDRb (the repository on rubyforge.org) on Rails 1.2.1? Any reason to think it won''t work? Thanks! Bill -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/backgroundrb-devel/attachments/20070130/93d4cd89/attachment.html

Hello ~ I am using the Capistrano recipe outlined in this post to restart my backgroundrb server: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/backgroundrb-devel/2007-February/000718.html My Version: ~~~~~~~~~~~~ task :before_restart, :roles => :app do restart_backgroundrb end task :start_backgroundrb, :roles => :app do sudo "nohup

Hi , How do i schedule a job that can send emails at intervals of time using backgroundrb and rails For testing When i hit the controller i''m able send the emails. but that is not i intend to do ..... I want to use backgroundrb and rails in which i''ll schedule a job for every 5 minutes/ 1 minute or so..... to send an email But when i write

Hello All- Is there anyone out there that wants to take over as maintainer of the backgroundrb project? I feel bad because I know lots of folks use it but I absolutely do not have time to work on it anymore :(. I''m looking for a new maintainer, I would give you all the access to the project you need and try to help you come up to speed on the codebase. If anyone is