[Backgroundrb-devel] A newbie question regarding BackgroundRb

[hemant kumar]

On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 17:10 +0530, मयंक जैन (makuchaku) wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just read Ezra's article on BackgroundRb and decided to use it one
> of my projects. I installed the plugin into my rails project using
> script/plugin and then ran rake backgroundrb:setup to copy the yml
> scripts.
> 
> Now my backgroundrb.yml looks like
> =======
> ---
> port: "22222"
> timer_sleep: 60
> load_rails: true
> environment: development
> host: localhost
> database_yml: config/database.yml
> acl:
>   deny: all
>   allow: localhost 127.0.0.1
>   order: deny,allow
> 
> scheduled_task:
>   :class: :tx_reaper_worker
>   :worker_method: :do_work
>   :trigger_args:
>     :start: <%= Time.now %>
>     :repeat_interval: <%= 1.second %
> =======
> 
> TxReaperWorker is my class which I generated.
> 
> =======
> class TxReaperWorker < BackgrounDRb::Rails
>   def do_work(args)
>     puts "Hello BackgroundRb"
>   end
> end
> =======
> 
> I started my rails app using
> rake backgroundrb:start
> script/server
> 
> However, I am unable to view the output of "puts" anywhere. I can
> connect successfully to localhost:22222 but cannot see anything
> happening. Neither anything shown up on the app's output, nor on the
> log/backgroundrb.log file.
> However, the logfile does shows that "Log file created...".
> 
> Am I missing any step? Doing anything wrong?
> 
> Thanks in advance :)
> 

You are using VERY old version of plugin, can you please checkout
details regarding new version from:

http://backgroundrb.rubyforge.org