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Hey Greg- Yes I am sorry, the new architecture uses fork and named pipes and a bunch of unix stuff to do its magick. Now you may be able to port it to qwork on windows, but I don''t think it is possible :( I''m really sorry about this but I need this thing to be as robust and solid as it can be and in the end windows isn''t compatible. Now you may be able to

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

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

Hey Folks- I''m trying to setup a new test/spec harness for testing Merb. I was wondering if there is a way to mock the Mongrel request, response objects easily to test my handler without actually running a server? I can easily do the env hash but I''m not entirely sure what needs to go in the request StringIO object that gets passed into my mongrel handler''s

Hey there Gang- The scheduler in the new BackgrounDRb is not really useable yet. So please avoid it for a few days until we get the kinks worked out. Thanks- -- Ezra Zygmuntowicz -- Lead Rails Evangelist -- ez at engineyard.com -- Engine Yard, Serious Rails Hosting -- (866) 518-YARD (9273)

Heya Folks- This is mainly for Zed and Mentalguy. I have been playing with the new release of rubygems 0.9.0.8 and I have a major problem with the requirement that fastthread needs to be required before thread. Just requiring rubygems and then requiring fastthread right after that will throw the error: ez _blog $ ruby require ''rubygems'' require

Hello All- Is there anyone out there that wants to take over as maintainer of the backgroundrb project? I feel bad because I know lots of folks use it but I absolutely do not have time to work on it anymore :(. I''m looking for a new maintainer, I would give you all the access to the project you need and try to help you come up to speed on the codebase. If anyone is

Hey Zed- I had a user with an app that was leaking memory with mongrel but not lighty/fcgi. I have been doing anything I can to track it down. I already did the Mutex patch to use unshitf and pop instead of shift and push and it didn''t really help much. The mem leak only really shows up when you use the wsess option to httperf. The other day I saw a ruby C extension that

Hey there folks- I''m happy to announce the first useable release of my new pocket- framework Merb. Merb is a mongrel handler with built in controller and view templating with erb. It has a nice routing system similar to rails but much simpler. It uses some of the code from the camping handler and the rails handler and then some of its own secret sauce to form imho a nice fast

The new backgroundrb seemed to me to be markedly slower than the old one. So, I ran a "side-by-side" comparison test using a worker that I had written which parses a CSV file and loads the results into a database. The results? The latest version appears to take twice as long to run the same code as the previous version. Has anyone else experienced speed issues with the new

Is it really a hash? As in, can I pass it into a method that a worker is calling so that, for example, a method in my ActiveRecord that''s actually doing the work? Really liking the new code. Does rubyforge or devjavu have the rdocs anywhere? -- Joshua Warchol Code Poet, Zaadz Inc. http://joshua.zaadz.com/

Ezra, * test harness in new generated merb apps with helpers for testing merb without starting a server. * pin down plugin arch Seems to me that these two tasks go together unless you want to have rspec built in Merb. Regarding the test harness, my understanding is that: - a developer should be able to easily write specs against a merb application. - a developer should not need to start a merb

so i have an after_create method on my track model that kicks off a background process that converts an mp3 to a swf. this is working fine locally on my machine, but upon moving it to my production server, i am getting the following error. I''ve only been using backgroundRB for like 48 hours, so i''m not really sure what this means or where to go. any ideas?

I''m just getting started wtih backgroundrb, and unfortunately hit a snag right away... I''m running the latest releases of rails, backgroundrb, slave and daemons. I created a simple worker class, using the generator, which currently does nothing but print the arguments that are passed to do_work. I''m running backgroundrb using ''./script/backgroundrb

I''m currently trying to build modules against the kernels created with Xen 3.0.5rc4. This used to not be such a problem, as Xen created a kernel directory and the built in it. Plain Jane, nothing fancy. I''ve noticed that somewhere since I did this (which was as recent as 3.0.4-1) the kernel build now does things a bit different. Apparently there is some sort of

Hi there, I''m just implementing backgroundrb to see if I can offload some "processor intensive" areas of my rails app (generating PDFs with lots of imagery in them, using rFPDF and rMagick as well). So far I''ve been able to figure it out fairly quickly....it''s a pretty cool tool! Some questions though: First: I''m running the basic cron-job

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

Hi All, From the past two weeks i am working on image croping using ImageMagic,Paperclip gems.It''s big headache to install ImageMagic gem.actually i am hosting my site in engineyard.so it''s difficult to configure ImageMagic in engine yard. can anyone please give me a suggestion to do image croping in ror. thanks, manikyalarao.p -- You received this message because you are

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

Eric, think I came across an issue with the parser in unicorn, with a request (due to 2 layers of nginx proxying) coming across with both a X_FORWARDED_PROTO and a X-Forwarded-Proto header. From the socket (in HttpRequest) - we get: X_FORWARDED_PROTO: http X-Forwarded-Proto: https which is parsed to HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO"=>"http,https There was a passenger ticket that