If you are looking for a lighter alternative to BackgrounDRb, this plugin might suit your needs.

Vitals

Home	http://trix.pl/blog/ruby-on-rails/running-long-background-tasks-in-ruby-on-rails-made-dead-simple
Repository	https://svn.trix.pl/public/background_fu
License	Rails' (MIT)
Tags	background backgroundrb threads Add tag:
Rating	(66 votes)
Owner	Jacek Becela
Created	9 December 2007

Comments

gyver

10 December 2007

There's a severe limitation I mentioned in the home page comments: it's single process only. The Background module doesn't have any mean of sharing the jobs across processes : if you have a mongrel cluster, this doesn't work.
Jacek Becela

10 December 2007

If you have more than one mongrel, you have to make sure your session stick to one mongrel. This functionality is provided by most proxies (HAProxy does this).
Steven Soroka

10 December 2007

are there disadvantages to Thread.new { ... } that I don't know about? I would have just done that. ;)
Jacek Becela

12 December 2007

I abandoned threads completely. BackgroundFu now relies on Kyle Maxwell's daemon_generator plugin (http://svn.kylemaxwell.com/rails_plugins/daemon_generator/trunk/README). Check BackgroundFu Readme (https://svn.trix.pl/public/background_fu/README) for details.

@steven: You might want to read my blog post (linked above).