Why double fork?

Well, to original fork didn’t work for me…

Merb fork of BackgrounDRb

Based on the 1.0.3 version of backgroundrb this is a hacked port to MERB. Some areas need tyding up but it works for all basic cases. Contributions welcome!

Installation

(1) Install gem provided in /pkg into your app's gem repository (which has to be named gems)
    ex. #cd ~/path/to/app
        #mkdir gems
        #gem install ~/path/to/bdrb_merb.gem -i gems --no-ri --no-rdoc -l
(2) Add to config/init.rb (Merb):
    require 'backgroundrb_merb'
(3) Create configuration file:
    #rake bdrb:setup

Usage

Workers are created in app/workers
To create new worker:
  merb-gen worker WorkerName

To start BackgroundRB:
  rake bdrb:ctl:start
  Control+C to stop
To run in background:
  rake bdrb:ctl:daemonize
And to stop it:
  rake bdrb:ctl:stop

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

Please look into backgroundrb.rubyforge.org