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BackgroundRB FAIL
I love BackgroundRB for how easy it made getting started with oo5 but she’s a cruel mistress. I’m using version 0.2.0 because I couldn’t get 0.2.1 to run at all and the docs didn’t match the code so I decided it wasn’t ready enough for me yet. But. 0.2.0 has a few problems, particularly when using it as a daemon controller. I just noticed that it stopped grabbing reviews a couple of days ago, which is incredibly annoying. The logs say “Mysql::Error: MySQL server has gone away”, which I suspect is something to do with the manual cleanup I’m doing to stop it eating all my MySQL connections. (BrB doesn’t release connections at the end of tasks so you need to kill them yourself.)
Long story short, oo5 hasn’t been grabbing reviews for a couple of days. Sorry about that. I’ll replace BackgroundRb as soon as I can work out a decent alternative.
