[Backgroundrb-devel] Passing object into results - "can't convert DRb::DRbUnknown into Hash - (TypeError)"

[David Lee]

skaar,

Thank you. That works :)



On 11/20/06, skaar <skaar at waste.org> wrote:
>
> * David Lee (davidjy.lee at gmail.com) [061120 15:45]:
> >    Hi,
> >
> >    I'm using backgroundrb to get RSS feeds and pass them back to the
> >    controller. I'm using the Ruby RSS library to parse the feed, which
> >    returns an RSS object. After that I pass the object into the results
> hash,
> >    but that's when this error occurs. Basically, this is what I have:
> >
> >    rss = RSS::Parser.parse(response.body)
> >    results[:feed] = rss  # error!
> >
> >    20061120-15:46:19 (16250)
> >    (drbunix:///tmp/backgroundrb.16249/backgroundrb_results_0)
>
> >    /Users/guest/workspace/project_nano/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/server/lib/backgroundrb/worker.rb:101:in
> >    `merge!'
> >    20061120-15:46:19 (16250)
> >    (drbunix:///tmp/backgroundrb.16249/backgroundrb_results_0)
>
> >    /Users/guest/workspace/project_nano/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/server/lib/backgroundrb/worker.rb:101:in
> >    `set_result'
> >
> >    Any ideas?
>
> it would seem like parse returns data that is not serializable over DRb
> from the perspective of the results worker.
>
> I need to think a little bit how to go about with this. I don't think we
> want the results worker to load all possible libraries that the workers
> are using. In this case, if we just add  require 'rss' to the results
> worker it will work.
>
> Then if you run from the console, you would also have to add a require
> 'rss' to display the data properly.
>
> I've captured a simple case in:
> http://backgroundrb.devjavu.com/projects/backgroundrb/changeset/158
>
> /skaar
>
>
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