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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

Hi, A pre-release version of backgroundrb is available now from svn. Download it from here: http://svn.devjavu.com/backgroundrb/branches/version099/ Since this release marks significant migration from existing practices, i intend to keep trunk untouched for a while. There are no install scripts, but you should copy "backgroundrb" file from script directory of plugin to script

Hey all, I''m having some issues moving a project that incorporates Backgroundrb onto a staging server... For some reason (surely of my own doing), my RailsBase workers are insisting on using trying to access my development DB instead of my "production" DB. When I try to load a model object from within a worker, I get the following: 20061120-21:54:28 (26296)

Hello everyone, I'm a student at the Universtiy of Delaware, and will be soon starting some research on the effects of lossy audio compression on speech sounds. I will be preforming test with both mp3 and vorbis. First of all, if I use the '--ogg' switch to lame, does lame use GPSYCHO to encode the wave, or some other psychoacoustic model (perhaps one designed for

Hi, Thanks for the help getting the new backgroundrb working, things are working fabulously now. I have two questions: 1) I have a few basic methods I need available on all my workers in order to communicate properly with my application... it seems to make the most sense right now to subclass BackgrounDRb::MetaWorker, or make a mixin module, because I''m actually extending some

Hello - I am observing that calls to MiddleMan.worker return only after the worker has completed its work. This puzzles me, and I presume that I am doing something wrong. Can anyone make suggestions? Snippets from my code are: class ReportController < SecurityController ... def create_xml_report(report,start_time) constraints = get_constraints(report,start_time,false)

Here's an intersting thing - in my spam folder today in popped an email from a Chinese manufacturing company trying to sell me the usual VoIP stuff - phones, etc. (From com-vox.com FWIW). However as well as targetting the email address on my web site, they also targetted a made-up, but plausable, email address at the host that was attacked last weekend - (systems at drogon.net and systems

Hello to everybody, I have accidentally deleted my cachedmetrics file. I thought that after I run wine and the file is not present, wine would generate it - but it didn't :( Does anybody know how can I generate that file? Thanx in advance Stelios -- http://www.freemail.gr - ?????? ???????? ???????????? ????????????.

Hello. I read in an old announcement by Ezra, relating to the older version of BackgrounDRb, about workers being able to clean up after themselves and a TTL feature. I''m not sure if these things are present in the newer version. I''ve tried overriding the delete method in my worker but when I call delete_worker, the method doesn''t appear to be called. Is there a right

I start up an external process when I start my rails environment. I currently do this in config/environment.rb by forking a process and recording it''s process id in log/foo.pid, I''d like to kill that process when I close mongrel. Is there an API in mongrel for responding to the shutdown event? Or do I need to listen for the term signal and do my clean up that way? Thanks,

Hello, I am unable to get the backgroundrb server to run. Initially I got: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:263:in `load_missing_constant'': uninitialized constant BackgrounDRb::MasterProxy (NameError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:453:in

This has been asked before, never well attended perhaps. Any thoughts on testing your workers? Current implementation is broken. An empty test case like this: require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/../test_helper'' require "#{RAILS_ROOT}/lib/workers/market_summary_worker" require "#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/lib/backgroundrb.rb" require

Hi there, I have a scheduled task which I started from Rails, set to run every 5 minutes, it takes probably about 20-30 seconds to execute (it''s aggregating some feeds). It ran for about 5 hours and then mysteriously stopped -- the logs show no errors. This kind of sucks because it''s like a silent failure, has anyone else had this problem? --simon --

Hi, just updated backgroundrb to release 1.0.1 and am getting this error when trying to start backgroundrb. vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/framework/core.rb:18: uninitialized constant Packet::ClassHelpers (NameError) Just updated from r298 where everything was working fine. If I comment out the offending line then backgroundrb starts but I can''t connect to it from my app. Anyone have any

I''ve been troubleshooting this problem for several hours now and haven''t been able to figure out what''s wrong. I have two boxes, dev and prod, both are identical except that prod uses Ruby 1.8.5 and dev uses 1.8.4. Both are running Slave 1.2.0, Daemons 1.0.5, and Backroundrb 0.2.1. The behavior I''m seeing is this. When I first start Backgroundrb, this is what

I am sure..again I am missing something, but I am trying to start a worker, when backgroundrb starts and it doesn''t seem to work. Here is my config/backgroundrb_schedules.yml file: feed_worker: class: feed_worker job_key: feed_worker_key worker_method: do_work trigger_args: repeat_interval: 20.minutes I even tried this from Rails controller: # def start_feed_worker #

We''ve got a small daemon we run on our servers, which looks something like this require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/../config/boot'' require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/../config/environment'' ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection do m = Message.next_pending if m m.do_something else sleep 5 end end Stuff gets place in this queue

I have been facing this damn ugly issue since quite sometime. So this worker reads RSS feed from Yahoo news and stores it in a DB. The worker is scheduled to run at every 40 minutes and my background_schedules.yml looks like this: feed_worker: :class: :feed_worker :job_key: :feed_worker_key :worker_method: :do_work :trigger_args: :start: <%= Time.now + 5 %>

Hi, I''ve been having some issues integrating bdrb on a cruisecontrolrb server It''s related to the way we stop the bdrb server. The thing is, right now when we stop the process we are killing the parent of the group of the process. This is ok if you''re running script/backgroundrb stop directly from the console, but if I''m running this from another process,

Hi, I wanted to get some opinions on this subject before I submit a PR about it. I don't know if there are any pitfalls with the 'fix' I suggested and though it best to run it past people here before submitting. If there's a better place to post this please let me know (freebsd-ports?). The send-pr output I was about to send explains everything so I'll just paste it here: