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My Rails application requires a very busy worker process running in the background at all times. I am launching this non-interactive process using script/runner. This process is very busy and is communicating with the MySQL server constantly. As I started putting some load on the system to test, I started running into performance issues. I have since discovered that Rails is only using 1

How are you guys handling threads or server processes that have to, for example, process the data in your application on a periodic basis? Cron jobs can do it and then run on the database. But, are there ways to launch threads within the rails application itself. I have heard of WebBrick ways, but I am working with lighttpd, fastcgi? (textdrive if you are really interested).

Hi all, I just watched the rail video: http://www.rubyonrails.org/media/video/rails_take2_with_sound.mov I am just curious. I can tell that the video was done on a Mac, but I cannot tell which applications were used for editing the code, and for interfacing with MySQL database. As far as editing source code, I normally use BBEdit (I''ve used it since 1994), but the editor used in

Say I want to send out an email once a day to people who''s name is "Bob". Would I use script/runner in conjunction with cron? Or is there another cool(er) way now? Thanks, Joe

Hi there I''m considering Rails for a new web-application planned to be built from scratch. The application has an extensive web front, and in fact most of the application is interfaced through that front and engaged through clients'' HTTP requests (i.e. the conventional way web-applications and "dynamic web-sites" work). However, some essential parts are supposed to

I''ve got a couple apps that I use (billing app, support ticket app, some other custom apps) that I want to integrate into one site. They will all use the same layout for the most part, and will link between each other. When I initially thought of doing this, I figured if I put the apps at different roots - /billing /support etc - then the links wouldn''t work at all, because

Performance experts, Normally to receive e-mails is to pipe their content to script/runner individually from a mail server, sendmail or postfix. Doesn''t this configuration run like Apache 1.3 with CGI, meaning for each e-mail a boot of the entire Rails environment and thus low scalability? Is there anything working like lighttpd-fcgi or going toward its approach? DD -- Posted via

I have a Rails app that is a directory indexer. It passes the desired directory path in the url. There is a user table, and a permissions table (which contains the volumes each user has permission to see). There is also a volume table, which contains the available volumes, and a path table, which contains the paths to every file available on the machine. [There are other tables, but these

In asp you have an Application built-in object, which works just like the Session hash, but it lets you share information among all users of a given application. which is the rails equivalent??? and if there isn''t, how would you implement such a thing ? (there would be concurrency issues to take into account, in fact asp''s application object has some lock and unlock methods

I''m using a runner script to try and send batch email update, however I get the impression that the runner is not operating in production mode and as a result it is falling foul of the system I have in place to block emails goinc out in development in testing modes. Is there some way for me to force a runner to operate in a particular mode, or even to check the mode it is operating in?

Did I sound like our President? :) <spin> I didn''t explain myself well. I am not thinking of buying the identically equipped PC laptop either at the same price. If I had a $2500-$3000 budget (laptop, Applecare + case etc) I might consider the Mac, but then in the PC laptop universe there are more options of going with the slower processors (T2300 or T2400) for about $1,000 less

Hi. Could someone post here a simple example of sending a mail throught a smtp server from ActionMailer but *outside* rails?? I mean, a simple script starting with: require ''rubygems'' require_gem ''actionmailer'' #stuff that sends some text by smtp I''ve been trying but I can''t get it to work. Thanks everybody.

Hi, I am planing and developing a larger rails app, where all the administration, configuration is done through the rails app. And the rails apps primary purpose is to display and search through data stored in a database. Now, I have to kinds of tasks which are located outside of the rails app. - parsing and importing data delivered externaly from locations configured in the administration

I want to be able to write a script in Ruby which regularly consumes an XML feed from a fixed source, re-formats it, produces a large file for web delivery, and updates a database with the contained information. It''s simple - just running a script from a cron job, and some basic data manipulation... But I''d prefer to use the Rails database mapping constructs than roll my

Hi all, I''m asking this question from the standpoint of a developer with almost 10 years experience with Microsoft technologies, mostly doing server side component and database work. So, I''m not very familiar with the java world. Can anyon tell me how/if java development can complement Ruby on Rails development? I''m not interested in how java can duplicate Rails

Hi Everyone, I''m happy to announce the 0.2.0 release of Mongrel -- the fastest HTTP 1.1 library Ruby has yet. http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/ -- ruby docs lame page. http://rubyforge.org/projects/mongrel/ -- project page. Special thanks to Tom Copland for setting up my RubyForge goodness, and to Why for kicking in time to get the Camping examples up to snuff. This release should

Hi there, The default recipe expects you to be able to access your web server directly from your local machine. On our web server, for security purposes, it is only possible to ssh to it through one particular ip (which is also a remote machine.) The capistrano source is so compact and tidy it looks very hackable. But rather than messing around I thought I''d ask first if anyone else

Hi I''m choosing a database for a new Rails application. I pretty much ruled out PostgreSQL, since despite good reviews of the database itself, it seems it has countless issues with Rails (for example: in recent releases migrations don''t work, and unit-tests fail). So I should now choose between MySQL 4.1, which as I understand enjoys widespread popularity - perhaps the most

Hi everyone, i wish to know how a wiki ( built in rails ) can be integrated into a rails application? To be more specific, the users of the rails application should also be valid users of the wiki and should be able to create, edit, organize pages in the wiki. Thanks in advance, Ak -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello Folks, This release of Mongrel should make the win32 folks go crazy. Thanks to Luis Lavena it supports a full service system for installing any Rails app as a service. This lets you start your rails apps from either the command line or the Service console. Stopping is still a bit problematic but we hope to have that solved in the next release. You win32 folks should probably send Luis