similar to: Shared Queue / Exclusive Query Results

I am just getting into web servers/web applications and rails as well so bear with me. I am trying to write a web app that, based on a users input from the browser, will perform some task, and update the browser (ala ajax style) as needed and/or provide a way for the user to control the background task. Now, I have more experience with java servlets, which makes this easy enough for a beginner.

Hi all, I have an external web service that I need to log into at a specific part of my web app,. The problem is that I only have one login to this web service, and if another login attempt is made while an existing login session is still active, the existing session gets terminated. How can I best serialise access across my mongrel cluster to this external API? I thought of creating

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

I have looked through the docs, looked at the code, even gave a cursory (2 page) glance at google, and it is not clear to me what SpecServer is or what it is for. Is it meant to speed up the execution of specs in a rails environment by doing some magic on the database? Or I am thinking it keeps a copy of Rails running to avoid the rails reload delay... Is there any documentation on this so I

Hello, Thank you so very much for Backgroundrb. Good Stuff. A general question: Do: - calling ''teminate'' within a worker - calling delete_worker through MiddleMan - letting the :ttl expire - calling MiddleMan.gc! (with an appropriate timestamp) All accomplish the same thing? And here''s a bonus feature request: It''d be cool if you could specify how many

I have a very strange problem here. I do not get this. So any help is greatly appreciated. Basically I have a model that calls a method in the background process in the "after_save" method. Let''s call the model products. So what happens is this: 1. I create a new product. 2. Everything works and the product is saved with id 13. 3. A method is called in my background

Is it possible to make the process priority higher for backgroundrb? Thank You, Ben Johnson E: bjohnson at contuitive.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/backgroundrb-devel/attachments/20060819/7a2e6d1b/attachment.html

Hi, Is there any interest in allowing controller methods to do post-response processing? This would be useful where some time-consuming statistic or index processing should be done after the response has been sent so as not to delay a response that does not depend on that processing. This could be implemented by allowing the action method to yield to the process method which in turn yields to a

Hi all ! I don''t believe I am the only one using model observers, right ? Well, here''s a nice one: $ drbspec spec . Finished in 0.125322 seconds 1 specification, 0 failures $ drbspec spec F 1) ''A user with an inactive and an active project should be able to return active projects only'' FAILED [] should == [#<Spec::Mocks::Mock:0xb75590bc

I have two classes: a Widget and a User. The User has an id that is referenced in two places on the Widget: owner_id and operator_id. How should I structure that reference for has_many? Thanks folks - I appreciate any help on this. --David --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails:

Hey all, I''m using a simple search function. It''s working great except for foreign keys. I have one table pets (id,name,owner_id) and another table people(id,name) owner_id being a foreign key of pet pointing to people name. here it is on the pet controller: @paginator, @pets= paginate(:pets, :conditions =>["name OR owner_id like

Ezra, Suppose a chatroom application, a RailsApp + 2 backgroundrbs: MiddleMan1& MiddleMan2, running in 2 machines. When Chater1 login, RailsApp call MiddleMan1 to get something about Chater1 from db to memory, like his contacts or other personal settings. When Chater2 login, RailsApp call MiddleMan2 do the same thing. But who is reponsible for the Global Data? like a Online Chaters

Hello, I need to write a function that will return a link only if the current user is the owner. Here is my code... 1. application_helper.rb 2. 3. def link_to_if_owned(owner_id, anchor_text, where_to_go) 4. if current_user.id == owner_id # current user is owner 5. "#{link_to anchor_text, where_to_go}" 6. else 7. anchor 8. end 9. end And

I lost my "connection lost" error.. but now I''ve got a "Mysql::Error: MySQL server has gone away" error.. It comes from: /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.6/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb:128:in ''log''. I''m not sure if Rails / BackgroundRb uses it .. but i''ve got the mysql (2.7) gem

What are people are doing when they need to deploy a new code base? You can''t just restart backgroundrb, because then you lose any long-running backgroundrb processes. But then you''d conceivably have to wait several hours for all your procs to complete before pushing out the new code base. I was originally thinking that during code deploys, we''d start up a second

Hello there, Im currently taking a Senior Design Course at my college. We are developing an online document editor prototype with Rails. I am not well-versed in Rails. As a matter of fact, we chose it for the project in order to learn it. The problem we have is the following: We have a User model (id, username, password, email) and we have a Document model (id, name, content, owner_id). A

I have two models Club and users. users are regular authenticated users and some of them might create a club. A club can also have members (essentially users) and there are attributes and models that apply to member but not to users. Here is what I have right now. Club => belongs_to :user User => has_many clubs (since a user can host multiple clubs). Now how do I fit this member model

Hello, I''m a total newbie, so please forgive my ignorance. I am trying to port an application from java to ruby. In order to do that, I need to put the object containing all the business logic into something like application scope. The nicest solution would be just to have an application wide hash, where I can put all kinds in of objects. Where and how would I instantiate such an

The following code works fine as long as I don''t try to run it through the distributed server. It doesn''t get there... It runs fine out of delayed_job, runs fine if called directly. But if ''distrib'' is true (the default) it runs right up to the call to the server and right past it without getting to the server or raising any errors. Am using Ruby 1.8.6.26 ,

Sorry if this is a really lame question, I''m sure it''s something fairly obvious, but I just can''t see it at the moment... I''m trying to add something simple to the model for a project management/todo list/thing. The DB has ''first_name'' and ''last_name'', and I''d like to have "full_name" available. So -