The "heavy lifting" tasks I refer too are heavy data processing or IO heavy tasks that have performed poorly in early prototypes using a Ruby only approach.
For example, once a RSS feed is downloaded and parsed, it's elements (usually mp3's of 100mb+ each) are then to be downloaded and stored away on a NAS array. Very quick prototypes suggested that standard open-uri within Ruby was not up to this task as the file being downloaded was buffered completely into memory before being written to disk on completion. I accept there may be ways to overcome this (suggestions welcome), that research has not been undertaken yet so I couldn't comment on what they are. Beyond this requirement, there is a need to transcode audio (and possibly video in the future), support popular audio formats such as WMA, MP3, OGG with metadata editing of those files and enable a streaming api for audio. There are many mature java libs to perform these tasks already out there that I wished to use to provide that "heavy lifting" support when Ruby doesn't give me the tools I need (and arguably Ruby isn't design with these tasks in mind). However, I digress. JRuby is the weapon of choice (reasons aside), so I bring us back to the original question. Is there a scheduling solution for JRuby that suits my needs? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
