Running a Perl script in the background

Hi, As part of my Rails Application I want the users to be able to start/ stop a perl script in the background... Currently I've tried cals like: system("perl perl_script.pl") or `perl perl_script.pl`

But I believe the server is actually waiting for the task to end.. Is there any way to run a task in the background?

Thanks, Nitro

Hi Nitro,

You might want to try

  system("perl perlscript.pl &")

or simply using BackgrounDRb.

HTH.

Regards Martin Eisenhardt