[Backgroundrb-devel] Quirks and such within bdrb ...

[hemant]

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Tiffani Ashley Bell
<tiffani2k3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Heyy everybody,
>
> So far, in reading about bdrb, I've found it to be just what I'm looking for
> much like other developers.  But, there are a few things I'm rather unclear
> on and I figure folks on this last can clear things up.
>
> So, I have the XMPP4R library that I'm tinkering around with and I've
> created the following worker:
>
> http://pastie.caboo.se/161129
>
> I originally had problems with getting this code to run properly, but I
> finally resolved those thanks to some previous posts on the list.  But, I'm
> still running into a few issues here.  First, why does it seem as if you
> can't access the arguments that are passed into the worker via the create
> method when it's indeed loaded for the first time?  I either get that I'm
> trying to access a nil or something else that prevents me from accessing the
> arguments I passed to new_worker.  Or am I correlating the two wrongly
> (create and new_worker)?
>
> Secondly, in my connect_to_jabber method, I attempt to do things like create
> a connection to Jabber and such.  Everything works fine outside of bdrb.  In
> this case, I'm only wondering what the tasks you call on workers are
> actually supposed to return and is the code I'm writing somehow preventing
> these from working properly even though it works outside of bdrb?  Here's
> just one line of what I was attempting to do earlier:
>
> def connect_to_jabber(login_info=args)
>    jid = JID.new(login_info)
>    return "All done!"
> end
>
> When I run this code, *without* the first line, it does just fine.
> Otherwise, bdrb just kinda sits there.  What am I doing wrong?
>
> Here's what I'm doing in the controller, too, btw:
>
> http://pastie.caboo.se/161138
>
> TIA for any help/pointers,

Okay, did you read the docs at:

http://backgroundrb.rubyforge.org

thouroughly? Also send_request geenrally blocks until backgroundrb
server returns some data back to rails.