There's a library called Spawn, too, which is nice for doing asynchronous but still request-triggered background processing. It might get less nice once 1.9 comes around, though, but... bridges when we come to them.
Evan On Dec 18, 2007 1:34 PM, Mason Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ezra -- > > I found it interesting that you recommended Bj (backgroundjobs) and not > BackgrounDrb. I hadn't heard of Bj before, and I'll check it out. Thanks for > the link. Given that you initiated the development BackgrounDrb, I'm curious > when and where you would recommend Bj over BackgrounDrb. > > Mason > > > > > On Dec 17, 2007 6:18 PM, Ezra Zygmuntowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > The best thing to do is to move any of your long running tasks off > > into a work queue and out of the mongrel/rails request response cycle. > > Something like Bj woudl help: > > > > http://codeforpeople.rubyforge.org/svn/bj/trunk/README > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mongrel-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users > -- Evan Weaver Cloudburst, LLC _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
