[Backgroundrb-devel] [ANN] New release! and Database access for workers

[P.Mark Anderson]

>
> 	BackgrounDRb doesn't need all of rails loaded. THat would make it  
> consume way more memory then it needs


Hi Ezra - I got it to work for me.  At first I changed the start  
script and config to include only the libs I needed, but then I  
needed a plugin (acts_as_taggable), so I included that too, but then  
the 'logger' instance used by my models wasn't defined, so I decided  
to simply include the whole Rails environment and now all is well.   
Is it the most efficient use of memory?  No.  But oh well.  I need it.

To include the whole Rails environment I made this change in script/ 
backgroundrb/start:

if CONFIG['load_rails']
   require "#{RAILS_ROOT}/config/environment"
end


Alternatively, you can pick and choose environment config libs and  
plugins by adding this to your config/backgroundrb.yml:

libs:
     environments:
         pocket_config
	some_other_config
     plugins:
         acts_as_taggable
	some_other_plugin


And then change script/backgroundrb/start:

# Require all worker classes in lib/workers/
Dir["#{RAILS_ROOT}/lib/workers/*"].each{ |worker| require worker }

# Load other libraries
unless CONFIG['libs'].nil?
    env_libs = CONFIG['libs']['environments']
    plugin_libs = CONFIG['libs']['plugins']
    env_libs.each {|lib| require "#{RAILS_ROOT}/config/environments/# 
{lib}"} unless env_libs.nil?
    plugin_libs.each {|plugin| require "#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/plugins/# 
{plugin}/init"} unless plugin_libs.nil?
end


HTH.
I might name my firstborn Ezra now.
pmark