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Handling Rails Background and Batch Jobs with BackgrounDRb

Daniel Butler — Tue, 23 May 2006 07:20:00 -0400

Ezra Zygmuntowicz has announced the alpha release of a framework to help you manage long running background tasks in Ruby on Rails applications. Ezra describes it as follows:

BackgrounDRb is a small framework for divorcing long running tasks from Rails request/response cycle. With HTTP it is usually not a very good idea to keep a request waiting for a response for long running actions. BackgrounDRb also allows for status updates that in combination with ajax can render live progress bars in the browser while the background worker task gets completed. The MiddleMan can also be used as a cache. You can store rendered templates or compute intensive results in the MiddleMan for use later.

DRb Progress Bar Movie
DRb Ajax Tail Demonstration Movie
Ezra’s BackgroundDRb Article at brainspl.at

"Handling Rails Background and Batch Jobs with BackgrounDRb" by Brent

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 17:57:19 -0500

Any idea when Windows support will be returned?

"Handling Rails Background and Batch Jobs with BackgrounDRb" by Daniel

Sat, 27 May 2006 08:51:37 -0400

Ezra has just posted a new release which implements BackgrounDRb as a full-fledged plugin, “complete with rake tasks for installing the start stop scripts, a generator for creating new worker classes, and rake tasks to start and stop the server.”