[Backgroundrb-devel] configuration issues

[hemant kumar]

Hi George,

On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 16:39 -0800, George Feil wrote:
> In the process of integrating BackgrounDRb into my company’s CRM
> application for our web site, I have run against two roadblocks in
> configuration that required my actually modifying the BackgrounDRb
> source code to work around:
> 
>  
> 
>      1. The MasterProxy class overrides the RAILS_ENV settings with
>         the settings in the backgroundrb.yml, or sets the environment
>         to “development” if not set. This makes it impossible to allow
>         the server to run in multiple configuration environments (e.g.
>         staging and production, for example). In my opinion, it would
>         be best to have MasterProxy rely solely on the current setting
>         of RAILS_ENV, and never override it under any circumstances.
>      2. DebugMaster supports only logging options: log to files with
>         hard-coded names, or log to stdout. In our clustered
>         production environment, we use SyslogLogger to send all
>         logging messages to a remote server, in order to maintain logs
>         for all our servers in one place. There appears to be no way
>         to do this in BackgrounDRb without modifying the behavior of
>         DebugMaster.
> 
>  
> 
> Apart from these two issues, this is a great tool for asynchronous
> processing. Thanks!
> 

It will be interesting to see your patches.