From saji at apcc21.net  Sun Sep 21 22:54:53 2008
From: saji at apcc21.net (Saji N. Hameed)
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:54:53 +0900
Subject: [ap4r-user] Thinking of using AP4R
Message-ID: <20080922025453.GA12953@apcc21.net>

Dear Shino and all,

I am considering on the use of AP4R for our project named "CLIK" for the
time being. CLIK is essentially a Rails front-end to a data crunching
job that ultimately creates a climate prediction. Some of these jobs
only takes a few seconds to finish, some a few minutes, and intensive
calculations 30 minutes or more. Obviously we need to put many of these
jobs in the background and get the output after the job is done.
Actually we use a separate data processing server on a remote machine
using DRb.

I explored a few solutions by googling and found projects like
"Background Job", "rudeQ", "Workling" etc, which provide queing and
background processing. My question is how "AP4R" compares to or is 
different from these others? 

Anyway I am going to explore how to use AP4R in this project by looking
at the HelloWorld example as a guide. FYI, I am only a climatologist and do
not know much about queues, Ruby or Rails and I hoping for good advice
from this list if anything goes wrong.

Yoroshiku,

saji
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