Forking a process in Rails is messing up mongrel

rubyonrails-talk
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I'm trying to run an external Ruby script from my Rails app.

I have two questions. First, is this the proper/correct way to run an external script from a rails controller. I just want to fire off the script and continue; I don't want to wait around for its completion or status.

Don't know about fork, but whenever external scripts come up, everyone recommends looking at backgrounddrb: http://backgroundrb.rubyforge.org/

-philip

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Craig, please read this:

http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mongrel-users/2006-August/001207.html

Not sure if it's relevant, but might help.

Vish