similar to: render rhtml templates in worker

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

Hi there, I''m trying to create a worker to do some asynchronous web client work and update the data model with its results. It seems, however, that every call I make to an ActiveRecord subclass causes the whole thing to block. At least I think it''s blocked. Right now I''m just using debug log output. Is there a decent way to debug/test workers I can try? Is there any

Hi, I have a long running task which generates JavaScript to files and I am hoping to move this to a backgroundrb worker. The javascript is currently generated with call to render_to_string: File.open(File.join(target_folder, ''all.js''), "w") do |file| file.puts(render_to_string :partial => ''partials/shared/javascript/tags'', :locals => {

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

In response to my Rails Weenie post today[1], someone mentioned that I try BackgrounDRb to help take the strain off my application. 1: http://rails.techno-weenie.net/question/2006/7/13/nested-loops- best-way-to-send-messages-to-blog-subscribers I''ve just tried to install and use BackgrounDRb with my app, but I''m afraid that I''m not too versed in running processes

In short: how (if possible) would i go about arranging it so that i can instantiate a middleman and set a worker going from within a method in one of my models? or is this a weird thing to be wanting to do? ( My specific situation: I have an ''Image'' model in my application. An actual image file associated with the model is being stored on amazons s3 system.

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}/

Greetings all; I''ve just moved my app into production and BackgrounDRb is writing to development.log. The backgroundrb.yml file specifies production, as does environment.rb. A little background (no pun intended ;-0 ) I''m using the ''old'' version of backgroundrb for session management. In the app, whenever a visitor changes pages I record the time in a db

Hi all, We use mongrel behind apache (using mod_proxy_balancer) to run an internal app for our business. Lately we''ve been seeing frequent errors from some of our mongrel processes. [Sun Dec 16 08:48:47 2007] [error] [client <CLIENT1>] (70007)The timeout specified has expired: proxy: error reading status line from remote server 127.0.0.1, referer:

Hello list, I am having a problem with template file. Why are variables not interpolated? [root@puppet manifests]# cat /etc/motd memory free = <%= memoryfree %> domain = <%= domain %> operating system = <%= operatingsystem %> This is the template file [root@puppet manifests]# cat ../templates/motd.erb memory free = <%= memoryfree %> domain = <% domain %>

I''m using backgroundrb for its scheduled jobs. Now, a job that runs on a daily basis creates an xml file that I currently create with an .rxml template. Can I run a controller action from within a worker ? Can I render() a template from within a worker ? Sorry, I haven''t grasped the whole rails/backgroundrb relationship so I don''t know what I can and not do. Thanks

I''ve found a conflict in the way the configuration file is handled, in particular effecting the setting of the ENV[''RAILS_ENV''] value. When I attempted to run a worker in production, it would run fine the first time - the second time would fail because it was trying to access the development database. I had created a ''backgroundrb_prodcution.yml'' file

I have a RHTML template and I would like the output of a RXML partial to be embedded within it. When I do <%= render(:partial => ''list_edit'') %> where there exists a _list_edit.rmxl file, I get XML parsing errors in the browser - I believe because the partial is causing the rendered content to be identified as XML instead of HTML. Is there any way to

Hi everyone. Backgroundrb is doing some really sweet stuff for my project. Thanks! I am trying to integrate backgroundrb with cruisecontrol.rb. I started off by creating a simple Rakefile::::: desc ''task for starting up backgroundrb'' task :cruise do template = <<-EOF :backgroundrb: :ip: 0.0.0.0 :port: 11006 :development: :backgroundrb: :log: foreground

Hi , If you are following commits, I have pushed following changes: 1. Now, you can specify :environment option in config file to load production environment and stuff. 2. Exeptions that were exposed to the user has been changed to BdrbConnError if rails is not able to connect to bdrb server. 3. loading mechanism has been changed, so remove backgroundrb script from your backgroundrb directory

Hi list, I''m having some issues getting backgroundrb to play nice with more than one mongrel. When I run my app on a single mongrel instance it works fine. I have two different problems show up in my backgrounrb_server.log. The top of the backtrace is shown here: 20070130-12:03:03 (92473) failed to find slave socket - (RuntimeError) 20070130-12:03:03 (92473)

if CONFIG[''load_rails''] ActiveRecord::Base.allow_concurrency = true ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(YAML.load(ERB.new(IO.read ("#{RAILS_ROOT}/#{CONFIG[''database_yml'']}")).result)[CONFIG[''environment'']]) end if i read the code right, this option doesnt really load rails. wouldnt it be better (for those who rely on the

In my app, I store the job key when a worker is fired off and then check back in periodically to see how its doing. The workers delete themselves when they''re done. I would expect when I try to get a worker that has been deleted, I would get nil or a proper exception, but instead I get: >> MiddleMan.worker(''foobar'') NoMethodError: undefined method

We ran into some problems accessing a freshly created worker, and had to insert a sleep of 1 second to get it to work. It looks like Ezra and skaar already know this: from middleman.rb: # HACK: there is a race in the worker/slave creation, we # currently need to sleep between create. sleep 0.1 You might want to increase it to 1 second for those of us on slowly mac books.

this: Index: script/backgroundrb/lib/backgroundrb.rb =================================================================== --- script/backgroundrb/lib/backgroundrb.rb (revision 16) +++ script/backgroundrb/lib/backgroundrb.rb (working copy) @@ -29,7 +29,11 @@ # the log via @logger def initialize(args) @logger = BACKGROUNDRB_LOGGER - Thread.new { do_work(args) } +