[Backgroundrb-devel] Problems running backgroundrb

[hemant]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 8:20 PM, John Wells <lists at sourceillustrated.com> wrote:
> On Feb 11, 2008 5:03 AM, hemant kumar <gethemant at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >
>  > On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 00:55 -0800, Alex Soto wrote:
>  > > does require 'lib/formatters' work?
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > On Feb 10, 2008, at 10:11 PM, John Wells wrote:
>  > >
>  > > > Hi guys,
>  > > >
>  > > > New to backgroundrb, and I like it very much conceptually, but I'm
>  > > > struggling to get it to run successfully. I started with trunk, but
>  > > > was getting a very strange gem require error when starting a worker
>  > > > (though it wasn't telling me which gem was missing)....see here:
>  > > > http://pastie.caboo.se/150225
>  >
>  > Its not complaining about any missing gems, rather its not able to load
>  > workers defined inside lib/workers directory. You must define at least
>  > one worker, before you can start bdrb. In case, you have already defined
>  > a worker, Can we have a look at the code of your worker?
>
>  Thanks for your help. Sure thing...the code is below. However, I'm
>  very curious...how did you determine this was the problem? Just so I
>  know what to look for in the future.

Because, when I saw error at:

http://pastie.caboo.se/150225

It clearly says thats start_worker is failing on 114 line. Generally
this happens, when bdrb is not able to load a particular worker file.
Also, you see empty string "gem_original_require': no such file to
load --  (LoadError)" because bdrb is not able to get name of worker
file to load correctly.


>
>  ===== controller that instantiates worker =====
>  class Admin::BatchController < Admin::ApplicationController
>
>   def initialize
>     super
>     @formats = GW::BatchListing::ListingRow.formats
>     @part_of = :admin
>   end
>
>   def get_progress
>     if request.xhr?
>       progress_percent = MiddleMan.get_worker(session[:job_key]).progress
>       render :update do |page|
>         page.call('progressPercent', 'progressbar', progress_percent)
>         page.redirect_to( :action => 'done')   if progress_percent >= 100
>       end
>     else
>       redirect_to :action => 'index'
>     end
>   end
>
>   def done
>     errors = "DONE " + MiddleMan.get_worker(session[:job_key]).errors
>     if errors.size > 0
>       flash[:notice] = errors.join("<br/>")
>     else
>       flash[:notice] = "Successful load."
>     end
>     MiddleMan.delete_worker(session[:job_key])
>   end
>
>   def add
>     @user = User.find(params[:id])
>     @cats = Category.find(:all, :conditions=>"parent_id is null")
>     if request.post?
>       listings = params[:listings]
>       content_type = listings.content_type.chomp
>       if "application/zip"!=content_type and
>          "application/x-zip-compressed"!=content_type
>         flash[:notice] =
>           "Only files of type application/zip " +
>           "and application/x-zip-compressed " +
>           "can be used. You uploaded #{content_type}."
>       else
>         # write out to tmp file
>         tmpfile = "/tmp/#{rand 500000}.zip"
>         open(tmpfile, "w") do |f|
>           f << listings.read
>         end
>         parser =
>           GW::BatchListing::ListingParser.new(params[:format],
>                                                         params[:listing_type],
>                                                         @user)
>         session[:job_key] =
>             MiddleMan.new_worker(:class => :foo_worker,
>                                  :args => parser)
>       end
>     end
>   end
>  end
>

There are couple of problems with above code, for example,
MiddleMan.get_worker is not defined. To get an idea about, which
methods are defined for MiddleMan, have a look at,

http://backgroundrb.rubyforge.org/classes/BackgrounDRb/WorkerProxy.html

Also, you should read README file that comes with plugin.

>  ===== and the worker itself =====
>  class BatchImportWorker < BackgrounDRb::MetaWorker
>   attr_reader :progress
>   attr_reader :errors
>   set_worker_name :batch_import_worker
>
>   def create(args = nil)
>     # this method is called, when worker is loaded for the first time
>   end
>
>   def do_work(parser)
>     @progress = 0
>     @errors = parser.process(tmpfile)
>   end
>  end

Well, I find  no problems with above worker code, and it should load.
Create a fresh rails app and see if bdrb works there.




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