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Howdy Folks- I''m happy to announce a new release of BackgrounDRb! I have added quite a few new features and included some nice patches from folks on the list. $ script/plugin install svn://rubyforge.org//var/svn/backgroundrb All of the code now stays within the plugin and the start and stop scripts are now just stubs. This makes it easier to tweak or figure out how it works.

Hi Has anyone mocked a call like the following for backgroundrb? MiddleMan.new_worker(:class => :admin_email_worker, :args => params [:email]) I cannot seem to find the correct manner to do it. Would have liked to be able to do MiddleMan.should_receive (:new_worker).with(:class => :admin_email_worker, :args => {"body" => "my message"}) Cheers Shane

If I have a worker and everything set up and I call: MiddleMan.ask_status(:worker => :foo_worker) MiddleMan.ask_status(:worker => :foo_worker) MiddleMan.ask_status(:worker => :foo_worker) three times in quick succession. Will the tasks be queued up and executed as the previous one finishes? Or is this going to ignore the 2 bottom requests? How does this work? Do I absolutely need to

I just had an interesting issue on a production system that has been running nicely for about a year. There were approximately 10,000 backgroundrb temp files in the /tmp directory. It looks like backgroundrb wasn''t cleaning them up. I noticed it with the following error: DRb::DRbConnError: drbunix:///tmp/backgroundrb.20015/ backgroundrb_logger_0_0.101544829808665 -

Hi there, I''ve been experimenting with implementing BackgroundDRb in my rails app but am running into some problems. The primary problem I''m getting is in cleaning up worker threads, or getting any kind of response out of worker threads. If try using the response function/hash in my Worker the worker will not execute reporting that response is an unknown variable or function.

hi, i am trying to grasp some concepts about mongrel, rails, and backgroundrb on how they all work in terms of threads and such. is there a book about distributed ruby and processes? i havent seen any on amazon yet... from my blog reading, i have some questions.... rails can handle 1 request at a time and can buffer to a certain extent? when mongrel instances are created, a copy of the rails

Hey there bdrb''ers! I have been so very busy with http://engineyard.com that I have not had time to complete the new release of backgroundrb. But I have done substantial work towards it. It is basically an entirely new beast with a complete rethinking of how it works. I have put up a zip file of the new code base in the hopes that some folks will be able to start playing with

Friends- I''m happy to annouce the first alpa release of BackgrounDRb. This is a small framework for managing long running background tasks that allows for ajax progress bars and more. It also serves as an Application wide cache and context store for when you need something like sessions but shared between users and multiple backend processes like fcgi''s or mongrels.

Since this morning, the server at http://svn.devjavu.com/backgroundrb is requiring authorized access. Could you guys look into it? Thanks, Saimon -- Saimon Moore Freelance Web Developer (Available for hire - For details visit http://saimonmoore.net) Skype: saimonmoore Yahoo IM: saimonmoore Google IM: saimonmoore

Hello all, I''m using BackgroundRb 0.2.0 (standalone) and in the do_work method of my worker, I''m working with objects from my Rails application. So in my config/backgroundrb.yml file, I added this line: :load_rails: true I think my worker isn''t doing what I want him to do. So I opened the console and read these error lines: # ruby script/backgroundrb console

Hi! I''ve just a created a really simple rails scheduled worker for backgroundrb to start playing with : class SessionCleanerWorker < BackgrounDRb::Worker::RailsBase def do_work(args) logger.info "SessionCleaner> started" CGI::Session::ActiveRecordStore::Session.destroy_all( [''updated_at <?'', 120.minutes.ago] )

Hi Dave, I''ve been getting some segment faults while running my tests using 0.10.14 gem so I decided to package the gem locally to add -dH and generate core dumps for you. So I followed instructions here http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/wiki/DownloadCurrent and first off ran the tests. I''m getting the following failures. (see this pastie http://pastie.caboo.se/34790). I

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 <

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

In response to my Rails Weenie post today[1], someone mentioned that I try BackgrounDRb to help take the strain off my application. 1: http://rails.techno-weenie.net/question/2006/7/13/nested-loops- best-way-to-send-messages-to-blog-subscribers I''ve just tried to install and use BackgrounDRb with my app, but I''m afraid that I''m not too versed in running processes

Hi, I''ve modified the latest acts_as_ferret code (version 0.3.0) to integrate with the Globalize (http://www.globalize-rails.org/globalize/) plugin. Essentially, I''ve added the ability to use a separate index per locale (It basically adds the language code as a suffix to the index and switches between indexes when the active locale changes). Since this introduces an optional

Hi, I''ve just deployed a basic ecommerce site on textdrive.com. The application has been stress tested on our local development machines and appears to be running fine (no memory leaks). However, on textdrive the fcgi processes are being killed after just a few requests apparently because of cpu usage (The log says the processes exceeds 17% average cpu usage in the last few minutes)

Hi , How do i schedule a job that can send emails at intervals of time using backgroundrb and rails For testing When i hit the controller i''m able send the emails. but that is not i intend to do ..... I want to use backgroundrb and rails in which i''ll schedule a job for every 5 minutes/ 1 minute or so..... to send an email But when i write

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

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