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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 #

Hi, I''m using backgroundrb to get RSS feeds and pass them back to the controller. I''m using the Ruby RSS library to parse the feed, which returns an RSS object. After that I pass the object into the results hash, but that''s when this error occurs. Basically, this is what I have: rss = RSS::Parser.parse(response.body) results[:feed] = rss # error! 20061120-15:46:19

Hi all, I just read Ezra''s article on BackgroundRb and decided to use it one of my projects. I installed the plugin into my rails project using script/plugin and then ran rake backgroundrb:setup to copy the yml scripts. Now my backgroundrb.yml looks like ======= --- port: "22222" timer_sleep: 60 load_rails: true environment: development host: localhost database_yml:

Hi there, Backgroundrb is working pretty well for me but I have a job that launches two of the same job, apparently a minute(?) apart from each other. Should this be happening if I have repeat interval enabled with a job_key? It seems like it should wait until the job is finished before launching a new instance. --Backgroundrb_schedules.yml-- city_updater: :class: :city_updater_worker

I''m using the latest backgroundrb. Do I need to setup a worker in order to use it with Rails? I remember using "Worker::RailsBase" before. Also, how do I access the logger from within the worker? Thanks a lot! -- Lalo

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

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

Hello, I''m trying to send emails from a backgroundrb worker and the email doesn''t send. I get no log messages in the sendmail log or the system log, nothing in the backgroundrb logs at all, nothing in the production log. Below is my code for each component worker: class QuizReviewerWorker < BackgrounDRb::MetaWorker set_worker_name :quiz_review_sender def create(args =

There is a line in the backgroundrb codebase: sleep 0.1 # TODO this is dangerous; could skip over some jobs Could this explain why my scheduler stops triggering? It only seems to work for about 12 - 24 hours before schedules are being skipped... Once I changed the times to using cron trigger in backgroundrb_schedules.yml and set the times to every 37th and 59th minute of the hour, instead of

I''m very interested in using backgroundrb for running jobs every n minutes. The release notes say that this functionality is not yet ready via backgroundrb. But I wonder, can I call backgroundrb with a ruby script from cron ? I know I could create a cron job that calls lynx (or whatever) on a specific page that will call backgroundrb, but I want to know if there other

Hi all, i was using bdrb a while ago and it wasn''t stable enough in version 0.2.1 for doing the job - it loss jobs or did execute only the first one invoked and so on. Now i gave the new version a try and i found a bug at playing around. When i start a worker_method over the normal Unix scheduler bdrb will start as much as possible the worker_method after the :end-time is reached.

Hi I have previously used railscron for server-side manipulation of the database but had a heap of trouble working with it. BackgrounDRB was suggested to me by a friend. I upload some files via acts_as_attachment and these go lie in a dir structure that i desire. What I want from the background process is to periodically (not user initiated) do some file-structure manipulation i.e. I want to

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 %>

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

I''m struggling to keep backgroundrb v2 running for more than 24 hours. It appears to be running fine for a while, then tries to fire off a worker (exactly the same worker it''s been running for the past few hours), and it suddenly dies. I haven''t found any pattern for the cause of this. In backgroundrb_server.log, the final entry is this : 20070206-10:41:45

Hi! I''m developing an localization plugin (just for my own purposes) and I wanted to extend the to_s method for the Time class. What I want to do: when someone does date.to_s(:short) that a localized version of the :short date is displayed. But I don''t know how to accomplish this. I know have this: class Time def to_s(option) print option.to_yaml

Hi Lalo, Its been a while since I've had a Stacker question! The answer is in the StackerCompiler::handle_while function in StackerCompiler.cpp in projects/Stacker/lib/compiler. Apparently the control value is only examined (not popped) for the "WHILE" operator. Take for example the prime.st sample program. The first thing it does is process the arguments with a WHILE loop:

Hi, I am fairly new to ruby/rails, but I thought I did a fair job of setting up my background worker, but after some time, maybe 4-5 hours of running, it just stops running, without any messages. Here is the yml file: backgroundrb.yml --- :port: 2000 :rails_env: production :host: localhost here is my schedules file: alerts_task: :class: :alerts_worker :job_key: :alerts_key

Hi Folks, BackgrounDRb is a Ruby job server and scheduler. Its main intent is to be used with Ruby on Rails applications for offloading long-running tasks. Since a Rails application blocks while serving a request it is best to move long-running tasks off into a background process that is divorced from http request/response cycle. This new release of BackgrounDRb is also modular and can be used

Help solving a performance mystery would be welcome. I have two test programs: * one totally CPU bound (it just infinitely loops) * the other I/O bound (it loops, each time doing * a write, * an fsync or fdatasync (I get similar behavior with either), * an lseek to back up to the same position again Under ext2, if I run these two together, they each run nearly as fast as