Hemant - I thought that <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">script/background start</span> starts all workers and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">script/background stop </span>stops all workers.<div>
<br></div><div>How does one explicitly close/exit a particular worker from within Rails?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:19 PM, hemant <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gethemant@gmail.com">gethemant@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:25 AM, <<a href="mailto:Tuong.Le@emulex.com">Tuong.Le@emulex.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
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> In Rails, it seems I can create a new worker with:<br>
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> worker_abc = Middleman.worker(:foo_worker)<br>
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</div>You don't create a new worker like that. It just gives you a handle<br>
for already running worker.You use MiddleMan.new_worker for creating<br>
new workers. More details:<br>
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<a href="http://backgroundrb.rubyforge.org/rails/#new_worker" target="_blank">http://backgroundrb.rubyforge.org/rails/#new_worker</a><br>
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> And later on uses it like:<br>
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> worker_abc.async_some_task(:arg => data)<br>
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> My question is when does this "worker_abc" go away and its resources freed<br>
> up? How does Ruby/Rails/backgroundrb know that I am done using<br>
> "worker_abc"?<br>
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</div>It doesn't. You need to explicitly close/exit your workers.<br>
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