Archives: November 14, 2007

New release of BackgrounDRb available now

Assuming nobody is reading this, I would quietly mention that, I released new version of BackgrounDRb plugin today.
Checkout full announcement here:

http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/backgroundrb-devel/2007-November/001043.html

Here is a sample worker:

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class FooWorker < BackgrounDRb::MetaWorker
  set_worker_name :foo_worker
  attr_accessor :count
 
  def create
    puts "Starting Foo Worker"
    @count = 0
    add_periodic_timer(4) { increment_status}
  end
 
  def process_request p_data
    user_input = p_data[:data]
    result = self.send(user_input[:method],user_input[:data])
    send_response(p_data,result)
  end
 
  def increment_status
    puts "Registering status"
    register_status("stuff #{rand(10)}")
  end
 
  def foobar
    puts "Invoking foobar at #{Time.now}"
  end
 
  def add_values user_input
    p user_input
    return eval(user_input)
  end
end
 
=begin
  problems, with existing things.
=end