On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:41 AM, cheshire137 <[email protected]> wrote: > The tutorials I've seen for beanstalkd all involve message passing. > I'd like to be able to do something like beanstalk.system('my > command') and get back a process ID for the forked process. I was > using Spawn (http://github.com/thoughtbot/spawn/tree/master) but > thought beanstalkd might be more suited to my needs because I don't > need extra instances of ActiveRecord created. > > Is beanstalkd intended for this type of usage?
Not really. You're probably better off with a fork/exec and setting up a pipe for the output of the subprocess. I don't know if there is a nice library to do it for you, but it's only a few syscalls anyway. kr P.S. Sorry about the delayed response. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "beanstalk-talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
