DRb: execute method but dont wait for it to finish

[Christopher Dancy]

Basically I want to execute a method on a drb service but not wait for
it to return .... The DRb service is undumped ... basically just telling
it to do something. Is there any easy way to do this?

 

[Roger Pack]

Basically I want to execute a method on a drb service but not wait for
it to return .... The DRb service is undumped ... basically just telling
it to do something. Is there any easy way to do this?

Run it in a sub thread you don't join on?
-rp

 

[Christopher Dancy]

Run it in a sub thread you don't join on?
-rp

That's actually what I'm doing now and then killing off the thread after
a few seconds so as not to waste the precious resources of my 1 single
ruby process. I was hoping there was a more elegant solution or maybe
just a "right" way to do it.

 

[Tony Arcieri]

[Note: parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]

DRb is inherently synchronous, so unfortunately not. Depending on your
problem, you might look at using an asynchronous system such as DelayedJob
or Resque

 

[Roger Pack]

That's actually what I'm doing now and then killing off the thread after
a few seconds so as not to waste the precious resources of my 1 single
ruby process. I was hoping there was a more elegant solution or maybe
just a "right" way to do it.

I don't think there is (though you could commit a patch to trunk that
would allow for it, perhaps).

http://emdrb.rubyforge.org

Mentions it has "synchronous and asynchronous modes"
Though I've never tried it I've run into it a few times.
GL.
-rp