similar to: Worker Termination

I had a worker scheduled to run every minute with backgroundrb_schedules.yml: ebay_runner: :class: :ebay_auction_worker :job_key: :ebay_auction_runner :trigger_type: :cron_trigger :trigger_args: 0 * * * * * * This worker posts an auction to eBay from a queue of auctions every minute. I was having a problem where the worker would run ok the first time, but never any subsequent minutes

We have a fairly expensive task that we''d rather not schedule too many instances of in parallel. Couldn''t get pool_size to limit the amount of workers, and I figure that''s hardly optimal anyway, so would like to have the work queued up for a single named worker instead, running as soon as possible. Using MiddleMan.schedule_worker() with :job_key does start off a

Hi gang, Thanks to other help I''ve gotten on this list, I''ve got backgroundrb up and running using postgres alongside my rails app. I''ve designed the system to have several eternally-running workers that periodically poll the database to see if there''s any work for them to do, and set things up in the config file to make them restart quickly if any of them

Hi, I have workers being created from within my main rails app when it receives XML documents. These workers then parse the XML and store the data that it contains. I would like the worker to delete itself at the end of its do_work method, so that the main rails app does not need to keep track of all the generated workers. I currently have the following lines at the end of the do_work method:

I''ve got some workers that I want to have running all the time. Right now I''m just launching them manually, by requesting a special page in my rails app that includes lines like: MiddleMan.new_worker(:class=> :receiver, :job_key=>:r, :args=>{:sleep_time=>10}) This strikes me as a really weak way to fire up my workers. I basically want to automate things so

I have installed backgroundrb. I can start it. I have read everything I can get my hands on, and have read the list for a few months. I have written a worker, and am ready to start. This worker reads a queue, and processes it (sends queued emails). Sends 10, sleeps for a minute, sends 10 until done - very straightforward. My question is, what would be the best way to run this? I have

Hi! I''m using the latest&greatest backgroundrb with rails 2.0.2 on ubuntu dapper. I''ve made an app that lets you run a query on several servers at once, which are selected at runtime. Therefore, for each server that is selected, I spawn a new worker and assign its work. After everything is completed, the workers are deleted. I often get this error:

Im trying to send mails from a backgroundrb worker and it seems like ActionView cant find my template. same code works as a rake task. here my worker: class StatusMailWorker < BackgrounDRb::Rails repeat 1.minutes # <-- hehe! def do_work(args) [...blah...] NotificationMailer.create_daily_report(users, rep, items) end end end its throwing the following error: No

Hi, I''m using backgroundrb but I have 2 problems with it. First is when I launch a thread Toto from the do_work method. Toto can''t access to a class variable defined before... (undefined method `+'' for nil:NilClass) I suspect that thread is launched when backgroundrb start but the worker not .. My code is : class MonWorker < BackgrounDRb::Worker::RailsBase

I am new to this list and relatively new to the backgroundrb plugin,. So first i will say hello to everybody here, especially to Ezra Zygmuntowicz! I played a little bit with a dummy worker and so far everything worked well. But now i want to do real work in a worker but now i get that error[1]. It looks like that the constants configured in environment* configs are not available to the worker

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 #

Is there something special I need to do to access session data in a worker? I''m using an AR session store. I''ve been working with Ezra''s tutorial, modifying it a little here and there to figure it out. So I changed the progress bar to a simple count-down in the worker which sends back the count to display in the view. No big deal. But if I try to access session

I''m having a little difficulty understanding how to retrieve results from deceased workers (from the documentation it seems that it is possible to do this). I pasted my simple test below. If anyone could point out what i should be doing differently i''d be very grateful. My test worker: class TestWorker < BackgrounDRb::Worker::RailsBase def do_work(args)

Can a worker kill themselves when they''re ''done''? Or do I have to do that either from the controller or the worker manager? Thanks, Bill -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/backgroundrb-devel/attachments/20061023/11dd429c/attachment.html

Hi all, I''m a newbie to backgroundrb and am having trouble integrating it into my rails-app. I''m using namespaces to differentiate between the parts of my app. When I want to create a new worker, it seems that it cannot find the worker object. Here''s my code: -------------------- controller app/passwd/index -------------------- class Passwd::IndexController <

Hi , I was wondering if anyone else has tried to use the Timeout::timeout method in a backgroundrb Worker and had Timeout raise an exception after the allotted amount of time . I ask because i have written a test script to make sure Timeout would work . I have tested the script by directly feeding it to ruby with : $ ruby test_script.rb and piping the script to the rails console: $

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 everyone, I''ve a class that try to spawn two workers, every 5 seconds. The code is something like: while true do MiddleMan.new_worker(:class => :researches_worker,:job_key => :researches) MiddleMan.new_worker(:class => :products_worker,:job_key => :products) sleep(5) end I''m using ":job_key", so if a worker hasn''t already ended its work

Hi It seems the following code do not transfer multiple arguments to the worker instance: controller: ======= # recipients = Hash # mailing = Mailing model instance session[:job_key] = MiddleMan.new_worker( :class => :mail_queue_worker, :args => { :recipients => recipients, :mailing => mailing },

When i call a worker method my browsers hangs until the task is finished. The same code works nicely in the background when inside the do_work method. Does this mean i can only start a task in background via the do_work method ? Or am i doing something wrong here ? regards tom -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: