similar to: repeat_every when a worker is not done yet...

I''m just starting out with BackgrounDRB and I''m pretty excited. I know there''s some development going on, but would patches against the released code be welcome? Nothing profound, just some documentation errors. Now for the real reason I''m writing. I''m testing the new(ish) repeat_every code and it appears to be having a problem. I''ve got a

Hello, i need to have some jobs scheduled in the background and executed at specific times. I wanted to make a worker who does that - and it works a little bit - but i had an enlightment... why not make bgdrb itself play that role? i mean, the MiddleMan has already everything needed! a timer thread, currently used only for deleting old workers and the workers itself. since im not familiar with

Ezra, Sorry for inundating the list. In using the autostart, repeat_every, and first_run, I noticed a behaviour I didn''t expect. I would like the job to run starting at 2am, and then every 24 hours. So I set first_run to Time.now.beginning_of_day + 2.hours, and repeat_every to 24.hours. The problem is if backgroundrb starts up at 6am (due to a code change or server bump), then the

I have a simple worker that I set up with repeat_every: class DueNoteQueuerWorker < BackgrounDRb::Rails repeat_every 1.minutes first_run Time.now def do_work(args) @logger.debug("Sending due notes. The current time is #{Time.now}") end end I want this to run every minute, all the time. The first run is fine, but it seems that subsequent runs get executed

Hello all, I''ve come up w/ a worker class that manages queued jobs using a fixed number of child workers. Well, that''s not quite true -- a new worker is spawned for each job, but you set the total number that may exist at once. There are three components: 1) queue_worker.rb: The singleton worker that manages the child workers. You probably want to auto start this. Make sure you

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

Hello all, I''ve got the problem about the following simple application using autostart and repeat_every. A thread(?) is forked for processing task at first, but at sencond time two threads seem to be forked. My simple application code is... - In worker class class FooWorker < BackgrounDRb:Rails repeat_every 2.minutes first_run Time.now def do_work puts Time.now.to_s +

Hello all, I am interested in using BackgrounDRb to clear out ActiveRecord based sessions. I have this working, just with a small hitch, here is the code: class ClearSessionsWorker < BackgrounDRb::Rails repeat_every 7.minutes first_run Time.now def do_work(args) Session.destroy_all(["updated_at < ?", 20.minute.ago ]) end end It''s not very complicated and

hi, i am using drb and it is working fine on my local pc on windows.. and after uploading the code to the server it was working for sometime but now it gives me error every time i invoke the process.. error--- uninitialized constant EmailWorker::Notifier - (NameError) /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/ dependencies.rb:477:in `const_missing''

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 using backgroundrb for session management and deletion of visitor-entered information when a session is abandoned. The visitor can either click a button to end their session and remove their data, or backgroundrb will do it for them after 5 minutes of inactivity. Everything''s working fine, I think. If the visitor explicitly logs out, then when the worker checks for their

Folks- I just commited another revision of the plugin. Nothing huge in this update but some extra features. Acl lists are now configurable in the config file. So you will want to blow away and recreate your config file again. Thanks to Georg Friedrich for this. And I applied Gunter Ladwig''s patch for singleton worker classes. These are workers that only have one instance of

First off BackgroundRb rocks!!!!. Top marks Ezra, it''s gone a long way to stopping us from doing a nasty curl/cron hack :) Okay so here''s what we''re using it for. We''re synchronising data from a Filemaker database, via web service equest, into a mysql database via a rails model called ''Syncer'' [How''s that for an oddball use case!].

Hey. I have a very annoying problem, and was wondering what is wrong. Suppose I have backgroundrb running, and then I have an action in some controller. In the action I define a worker. When leaving the action, suddenly the connection to backgroundrb is lost: DRb URI: druby://localhost:22222 Pid: 3976 Autostart... done druby://localhost:42531 - #<Errno::EBADF: Bad file descriptor -

hello, i have a problem with wine, but i don't know the meaning of the message that it replays when i try to start the prog .exe. This is the message: Code: ... wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0xd12e3930 at address 0x41654d (thread 0009), starting debugger... Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0xd12e3930 in 32-bit code (0x0041654d).

Hi, First off, thanks Ezra for showing the way with BackgrounDrb. It''s a real godsend. I wanted to add a bit of job control to the system so that I could cancel DRB processes and so on. I thought I''d share how I did it in case anyone should find it useful or have feedback. I wanted to be able to put checkpoints into the drb job so that I could let the job do whatever needs to

Hello all, I am importing large word documents. I have a test file which is 30mb in length. I run this through a series of processes to clean it up and extract the data i need to inject bits of it into a database. The 30mb file runs fine on my Mac. But on the FreeBSD server dies with a NoMemoryError at one of the first steps, which is normalizing the file. Basically, the sequence is the user

I recently installed Ubuntu 8.10 and, ever since then, I am not able to play any PopCap games at all whatsoever via Wine. Everytime I play any PopCap game via Wine, I get the following error message.... [Image: http://www.geocities.com/reeslester/errormsg.png ] Can anybody please explain to me what this means and what can be done to fix this problem? Here is the entire bugging message

Hmm.. is this "update.exe" problem same which is happening with ie7 in32-bit (needs some cat file copied somewhere to run)? With wow64 build I have been testing to install SolidWorks 2009-2011 x64 and most of the times installer tries by default install the app to "Program Files (x86)"-folder, sometimes it gets correct program files folder, usually not. Installer fails on

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