Hi Saji, Thank you for your interested in AP4R and I'm really sorry for this late reply.
> "Background Job", "rudeQ", "Workling" etc, which provide queing and > background processing. My question is how "AP4R" compares to or is > different from these others? One big difference is robustness. AP4R has 'SAF' function which guarantees a message delivery between your CLIK and AP4R server. As a result, no matter what happens, for example database and N/W trouble, server down and so on, you don't lose your crunched data. A message is stored in a database before sending AP4R, you can resend the message after recovery from system failure. The details are as follows. # you can see a message sequence dialog among rails, ap4r and database. http://www.slideshare.net/kiwamu/ap4r-on-rubyconf2007/126 Other difference is flexibility for system design. It's relatively easy to distribute load and control a message flow. Some patterns are shown below. http://www.slideshare.net/kiwamu/ap4r-on-rubyconf2007/95 Glad I could be of some help. Best regards kiwamu -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 代理 Saji N. Hameed Sent: 2008/09/22 (月) 11:54 To: [email protected] Subject: [ap4r-user] Thinking of using AP4R Dear Shino and all, I am considering on the use of AP4R for our project named "CLIK" for the time being. CLIK is essentially a Rails front-end to a data crunching job that ultimately creates a climate prediction. Some of these jobs only takes a few seconds to finish, some a few minutes, and intensive calculations 30 minutes or more. Obviously we need to put many of these jobs in the background and get the output after the job is done. Actually we use a separate data processing server on a remote machine using DRb. I explored a few solutions by googling and found projects like "Background Job", "rudeQ", "Workling" etc, which provide queing and background processing. My question is how "AP4R" compares to or is different from these others? Anyway I am going to explore how to use AP4R in this project by looking at the HelloWorld example as a guide. FYI, I am only a climatologist and do not know much about queues, Ruby or Rails and I hoping for good advice from this list if anything goes wrong. Yoroshiku, saji -- -- Saji N. Hameed APEC Climate Center +82 51 668 7470 National Pension Corporation Busan Building 12F Yeonsan 2-dong, Yeonje-gu, BUSAN 611705 [EMAIL PROTECTED] KOREA _______________________________________________ ap4r-user mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ap4r-user _______________________________________________ ap4r-user mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ap4r-user
