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Comment on Ruby Background Tasks with Starling by Background Jobs in Ruby on Rails « 4 Lines of Code

Background Jobs in Ruby on Rails « 4 Lines of Code — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:53:55 +0000

[...] – written by Blaine Cook at Twitter – Starling is a Message Queue Server based on MemCached – written in Ruby – stores jobs in memory (message queue) – Ruby client: for instance Workling – documentation: some good tutorials, for example the railscast about starling and workling or this blog post about starling [...]

Comment on Software Lifespan by albel86

albel86 — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:06:45 +0000

Надо будет в скором времени на адалт перейти: прибыльный бизнес… Везде эротика уже… Печально, но ничего не поделаешь((

Comment on Ruby Background Tasks with Starling by Dave

Dave — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:36:07 +0000

Doh! I did the same thing. I always forget about script/server being different from script/console.

Comment on Ruby Background Tasks with Starling by Luke

Luke — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:50:56 +0000

Oh, I’m an idiot. Apparently starting a rails environment is now:

script/server -e environment_name

and NOT:

script/server RAILS_ENV=environment_name

Comment on Ruby Background Tasks with Starling by Dave

Dave — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:39:23 +0000

Try:
RAILS_ENV=development_remote script/server

If it’s dropping back to development, it could be that it’s not properly picking up the RAILS_ENV.

Comment on Ruby Background Tasks with Starling by Luke

Luke — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:48:25 +0000

Howdy,

So I have this in

## config/workling.yml:
production:
listens_on: localhost:15151

development:
listens_on: localhost:22322

test:
listens_on: localhost:12345

development_remote:
listens_on: #my_remote_ip_here#:22522

cucumber:
listens_on: localhost:12345

## end of config/workling.yml

I get the starling and workling set up on my staging server at #remote_ip#, and I get this outcome:

# this succeeds:
script/console development_remote
>> r = MyWorkerClass.asynch_count_to_a_hundred_million
=> “”my_worker_classes:count_to_a_hundred_million:7edb0e25b721ea725441b79d8ebb4d58″

# and it goes to the queue, and I see the processor spike as ruby counts to 100,000,000 on my staging server

… all good so far, but then

## this fails:
script/server RAILS_ENV=development_remote
# when I browse to a controller function which somewhere has
# MyWorkerClass.asynch_count_to_a_hundred_million
# I get the following error:
“config/workling.yml configured to connect to queue server on localhost:22322 for this environment. could not connect to queue server on this host:port. for starling users: pass starling the port with -p flag when starting it. If you don’t want to use Starling, then explicitly set Workling::Remote.dispatcher (see README for an example)”

So it looks like it’s not loading the proper set of details from workling.yml. How can I fix this?

Thanks
– Luke

Comment on Software Lifespan by Tweets that mention Software Lifespan » Big Dave’s Blog -- Topsy.com

Tweets that mention Software Lifespan » Big Dave’s Blog -- Topsy.com — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:19:36 +0000

[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Betsy , Dave. Dave said: New blog post: Software Lifespan http://davedupre.com/2010/01/29/software-lifespan/ [...]

Comment on Software Lifespan by Dave

Dave — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:31:05 +0000

Great article. Thanks. My only comment about comparing software engineering to civil engineering is that an office building is not soon asked to be a hockey stadium. It is rare that a software product knows precisely what it will be when it grows up. That said, I’m all for making software that lasts forever. I’m a little jaded by recent startup products that evolved so much that the foundation became wobbly.

Comment on Software Lifespan by Mike H

Mike H — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 05:12:36 +0000

Hi Dave: This reminded me of this article from a while back by Dan Bricklin

Comment on iPhone Wishlist by molecule

molecule — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:10:45 +0000

“The price drop made it a great time to upgrade my wife as well.”

Where do you upgrade a wife round here, and how much does it cost?