background-process

I'm building a Rails project that has a cron-type job that I'm managing with Rufus Scheduler. I have two questions about how to set this up appropriately in Rails: Where's the best place to put the job's code? Where should I place the Rufus code to schedule the job? How should I kick it off? To control the scheduler I would create a config/initializers/task_scheduler.rb : task_scheduler = Rufus::Scheduler.start_new task_scheduler.every("1m") do Something.to_do! # Do something every minute! end Now for the Something.to_do code, that sort of depends on what it does. Perhaps it is a data model

I have a Perl script that needs to kick off another process in the background and exit without waiting for the other script to finish. There are lots of threads on StackOverflow that cover how to wait in Perl or how to not wait for other programming languages, but I can't seem to find the right answer for Perl. I've read up quite a bit and thought I was doing the right things but none of my attempts seem to be working correctly. Here are all the variations I've tried so far to no avail: system(qq|perl /util/script.pl $id|); system(qq|perl /util/script.pl $id &|); exec(qq|perl /util/script.pl

When running in the background, my implementation of the AVPlayer is unable to play audio (e.g. podcast) that is downloaded, but is able to play songs that are stored locally. Failure to play in the background is only when the phone is disconnected from my computer. If my phone is direct connected to my computer/debugger, any media that is local or is downloaded plays without a problem. In the foreground, there is also no problem playing either media type. Here is my implementation: AVPlayer *moviePlayer; AVPlayerItem *playerItem; NSURL *address = /* the url of either a local song or remote

Accessing a WPF FlowDocument in the BackGround My question relates to accessing a UI object, in the background in WPF. I have seen dozens of sample apps, that all are simple, easy to follow, and 95% of which tell you how display a progress bar. That’s not quite what I want….. My problem is this: I want to perform a long task (or many long tasks) by accessing a FlowDocument in a RichTextBox. The exact task isn’t relevant here, but an example might be to scan through the document, and count the number of times a particular word appears, or how many red characters there are……. In a long document,

Within our application we use multiple Services and Intent Services for BLE communication, microphone recording, etc. We have noticed the newly Background Limitations and Restrictions (Yes, we did notice it rather late, I know). I've changed the implementations for using ContextCompat.startForegroundService() function and using the startForeground() with a notification like it stated in the docs. But we saw that when the application is killed , the Foreground Service dies also after a few minutes. Should it happen? Should the Foreground Service will only continue to work if the app is in the

I am developing an Android application and when it launches : 1) I make an HTTP Request to my server to send a small JSON file. 2) Open a webView to show a URL. When the server is running properly there is absolutely no problem and everything goes smoothly. HOWEVER , if for any reason the server is down , the HTTP request literally hangs and i need to wait till there is an HTTP timeOut which is around 30seconds till i actually see the webView with the URL loading. I read that i shouldn't make any networking inside the UI thread and i should use another thread for that. In BlackBerry , that i