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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

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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

My application is going to have a work queue of scheduled tasks stored in the DB. This work queue will be shared across multiple Rails app servers. I need a way to ensure that no two servers get the same jobs if multiple servers pop jobs off the top of the queue simultaneously. Is there a fairly simple way to acheive this? Or do I need to come up with some fancy secondary server to dispatch

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

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

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

Here is my weird problem. Two models like following: Lexeme id:int name:string Structure id:int ref_id:string meta_id:int Lexeme can have many structure records through foreign key ''ref_id'' in the structures table. And these structure records belonging to one lexeme differs between each other using meta_id. And if Lexeme has structures, then there must be a top_struct whose

How to programmatically (i.e., without no or minimal handcoding) copy a netCDF file? (Without calling > system("cp whatever wherever") :-) Why I ask: I need to "do surgery" on a large netCDF file (technically an I/O API file which uses netCDF). My group believes a data-assimilation error caused a data variable to be corrupted in a certain way, so I'm going to

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 developing a stateful Ruby application that needs to keep data in one location where all people accessing the site can modify its contents. This data will be read-from/written to often, so I would prefer for rails to keep it in memory, rather than a database. My frist try involved global variables. After discovering that they were being "re-initialized" with each new

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

Just received the news from Tom Mornini. Congrats Ezra for the new Engine Yard site and the blog you will be collaborating. Hope to read you there soon. http://www.engineyard.com/ Jonathan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/backgroundrb-devel/attachments/20060925/3f251fa4/attachment.html

I keep getting: No connection to breakpoint service at druby://localhost:42531 (DRb::DRbConnError) Tries to connect will be made every 3 seconds... This happens every time i run ./script/breakpointer using 0.9.5 on OSX or Windows. Any ideas?

I want to use DRb within my Rails app. Right now I''ve got a very basic class: class PaymentGateway cattr_accessor :ssl_config, :host, :port def self.gateway @@gateway ||= new end def process(amount, card, type = :auth) @biller.process(amount, card, type) end def set_card(user_id, number) @biller.set_card(user_id, number) end protected def initialize

Hi all I''m experiencing something strange with a :job_key, it took me a very long time to find out a worker wasn''t doing it''s job because of the name of my job_key. The first one I tried was :make_kohier, and with that name (and lot''s of other ones) I can''t get the worker to work. I do get my key in return, but the job doesn''t start

I have a job that I am starting from a Rails controller in production mode using MiddleMan: MiddleMan.new_worker(:class => :import_ccg_category_worker, :args => { :category_id => @category.id, :remote_category_id => params[:remote_category_id], :description => "Importing CCG products for #{@ category.name}" }) Both of the category ID variables are just basic integers. I

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

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