[Backgroundrb-devel] A couple of problems

[Chris Roos]

Hi Ezra,

Thanks for the great work on BackgrounDRb.  I have come across a
couple of problems.

1. I wanted to define a simple class in the worker file to wrap up and
pass back some data to my controller.  It seems that if I create the
class either inside or outside of my worker class (in the same file)
it gets wrapper by a DRb::DRbUknown object and therefore cannot be
accessed from my controller.

class MyWorker < BackgrounDRb::Rails

  class MyResult
    attr_reader :result
    def initialize(result)
      @result = result
    end
  end

  def do_work()
  end
  def results
    MyResult.new(100)
  end

end

-- my_controller.rb --

def results
  results = MiddleMan.get_worker(session[:job_key]).results
  p results.result
  #=> undefined method `result' for #<DRb::DRbUnknown:0x26d15a4>
end

I got around this by defining the class within the results method and
returning like that.  Really just wondering if this is by design or a
bug?

2. When trying to pass a constant (class name in this instance) in the
args hash I receive the following error.

#=> undefined method `[]' for #<DRb::DRbUnknown:0x13382d4>

(druby://localhost:22222)
/rails_app/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/backgroundrb.rb:105:in
`new_worker'
(druby://localhost:22222)
/rails_app/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/backgroundrb.rb:104:in
`synchronize'
(druby://localhost:22222)
/rails_app/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/backgroundrb.rb:104:in
`new_worker'
app/controllers/feed_controller.rb:36:in `method_calling_drb_worker'

Again, I wonder if this is by design or a bug?

Cheers,

Chris