similar to: backgroundrb 0.2.1 not supported on windows platform?

Forgive me if this has been addressed somewhere, but I have searched and can''t come up with anything. I am basically trying to distribute several web page scraping tasks among different threads, and have the results from each added to an Array which is ultimately returned by the backgroundrb worker. Here is an example of what I''m trying to do in a worker method: pages =

Hi Folks, We are glad to announce shiny new release of BackgrounDRb, which will soon become 1.0. A quick summary of changes: - BackgrounDRb is no londer DRb, its based on event driven network programming library packet ( http://www.packet.googlecode.com ) . - Since we moved to packet, many nasty thread issues, result hash corruption issues are totally gone. Lots of work has went in making

Hi. I am using BackgrounDRb to process thumbnails and upload to S3 - things are hunky-dory in development (thumbs are generated, these are uploaded to S3, the metadata is saved to trhe DB, and I get a nice status page updated by periodic calls via ask_status), but when I tried to deploy to our staging server and stop/start BackgrounDRb via Capistrano, things blew up - well, not exactly,

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

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

So, what''s the status of this project? I''m a little confused. The documentation at http://backgroundrb.rubyforge.org seems out of date. It refers to http://svn.devjavu.com/backgroundrb/tags/release-0.2.1, which doesn''t work. All I want is a way to easily set up tasks that should run periodically. Some stuff should run every 10 seconds, some stuff once a day, etc.

Hello all, After upgrading to Rails 1.2.2, I''m getting a strange error when one of my workers is invoked. The worker is responsible for monitoring a folder (using directory_watcher) and emailing a specific user when a file is dropped there, but it''s bombing immediately upon instantiation (or maybe when trying to instantiate ActionMailer?) with the error "Text is not a

Hello all, I get this intermittent error saying OpenURI::HTTPError. At the bottom of the email is what is reported in my backgroundrb_server_<port>.log file. The process_netflix_reviews method is parsing (in the background) Netflix''s RSS feeds. This error also pretty much brings down the BDRb process and to recover, I am forced to do a ./script/backgroundrb stop

Hi Ezra/skaar, Wow man, the exercise was worth it. The connection closed problem with socket as i mentioned in my earlier mails...completely disappeared, and now i can connect only once to the socket and keep reading..till end of its days. Literally impossible with older release of backgroundrb. This could also potentially solve the issues people were having with ActiveRecord. As i said

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

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

It''s that time again friends. skaar has been at it again and has greatly improved the stability of the new system. And Ara Howard has helped a ton by working with us on the slave library to iron out the wrinkles./ The results is a lot nicer backgroundrb for everyone. I have to say another huge thanks to skaar. He has singlehandedly wrote almost all of this new version and many

I found this stack trace in my logs. My worker name is MiscWorker, and Qualifier is a Rails model. uninitialized constant MiscWorker::Qualifier: /Users/bryan/ Workspace/sandbox/scraper-trunk/config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/ lib/../../activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:476:in `const_missing'' /Users/bryan/Workspace/sandbox/scraper-trunk/lib/workers/

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 digging into BackgrounDRb and having some problems testing a worker class. The following line in my test (created from script/generate worker Test) throws an error: worker = TestWorker.new(:test_string => "testing...") Error: /activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:123:in `const_missing'': uninitialized constant BackgrounDRb (NameError) from

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 just had an interesting issue on a production system that has been running nicely for about a year. There were approximately 10,000 backgroundrb temp files in the /tmp directory. It looks like backgroundrb wasn''t cleaning them up. I noticed it with the following error: DRb::DRbConnError: drbunix:///tmp/backgroundrb.20015/ backgroundrb_logger_0_0.101544829808665 -

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 <

I installed BackgrounDRB as instructed: script/plugin install svn://rubyforge.org//var/svn/backgroundrb rake backgroundrb:setup I started it with: rake backgroundrb:start In a model I make the call: MiddleMan.new_worker :class => :rss_worker In /lib/workers I have file rss_worker.rb, which contains the class: Class RssWorker < BackgrounDRb::Rails def do_work(args) ... end end