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The convention in Rails is that if no environment (also sometimes referred to as "mode") is specified whatever is loading it up (mongrel, backgroundrb, irb, etc.) will be in the development environment.

With backgroundrb, you specify the environment in config/backgroundrb.yml.  In some circumstances, we have found that it ignores what is set there and startups in development anyway.

If you experience this problem, things like constants not being declared are a likely indicator in your logs, use this as a workaround:

$ RAILS_ENV=production script/backgroundrb start

I believe this issue is fixed in the latest version of backgroundrb, but we won't be updating Kete to use it right now.

Cheers,

Walter 

Tags: backgroundrb, Development, startup, environment, mode, production

With newer versions of Backgroundrb, the configuration file has changed. If you get an error like the one below on startup, try updating your config/backgroundrb.yml to something more up to date:

bash-3.2$ script/backgroundrb start
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/packet-0.1.7/lib/packet/packet_core.rb:124:in `bind': Address family not supported by protocol family - bind(2) (Errno::EAFNOSUPPORT)
	from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/packet-0.1.7/lib/packet/packet_core.rb:124:in `start_server'
	from /Users/walter/Development/apps/kete/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/server/lib/master_proxy.rb:17:in `initialize'
	from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/packet-0.1.7/lib/packet/packet_master.rb:19:in `run'
	from /Users/walter/Development/apps/kete/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/server/lib/master_proxy.rb:14:in `initialize'
	from script/backgroundrb:46:in `new'
	from script/backgroundrb:46

My config file went from looking like this (and failing);

---
:backgroundrb:
  :port: 11006
  :ip: localhost

To this and working:

---
:backgroundrb:
  :port: 11006
  :ip: 127.0.0.1
  :result_storage: memcache

:memcache: "127.0.0.1:11211"

The relevant difference the change from ":ip: localhost" to ":ip: 127.0.0.1".

Tags: backgroundrb, Troubleshooting, startup