BackgrounDRb

BackgrounDRb is a Ruby job server and scheduler. Its main intent is to be used with Ruby on Rails applications for offloading long-running tasks. Since a Rails application blocks while serving a request it is best to move long-running tasks off into a background process that is divorced from http request/response cycle.

This new release of BackgrounDRb is also modular and can be used without Rails so that any Ruby program or framework can use it.

Usage

Install using bundler via rubygems by adding

gem 'backgroundrb-rails3', :require => 'backgroundrb'

to your Gemfile and then look into backgroundrb.rubyforge.org for instructions (DISCLAIMER: documentation on rubyforge is for the Rails2 version of backgroundrb)