Welcome to the BackgrounDRb project

• RDOC/README: http://backgroundrb.rubyforge.org
• Subversion repository: http://svn.devjavu.com/backgroundrb
• Mailing List Archive: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/backgroundrb-devel
• Examples: source:/trunk/examples

Introduction

BackgrounDRb is a Ruby job server and scheduler. Its main intent is to be used with Ruby on Rails applications for offloading long running-tasks. Since a Rails application blocks while servicing a request, it is best to move long-running tasks off into a background process that is divorced from the HTTP request/response cycle.

This new release of BackgrounDRb is also modular and can be used without Rails. So any Ruby program or framework can use it.