README

h1. Jobby Rails

Jobby Rails is a lightweight interface to Jobby, a gem which allows many
concurrent 'jobs' to be run asynchronously from one another.

Jobby Rails provides everything you need to pass on long running tasks, to
Jobby to be executed. What makes this solution unique to all the other is that
(up to a specified maximum of child processes), Jobby executes your tasks in 
_parallel_.

Jobs and Freelancers (See the Documentation) are given your Rails environment
and can access all of your Models and so on. Jobby (and Jobby Rails) is COW
Friendly if your Ruby Interpreter supports it.

h1. Requirements

Jobby and Jobby Rails will only run on UNIX-like operating systems and on Ruby
interpreters which support the @fork()@ system call. 

Unsupported Platforms:

	* Windows
	
Unsupported Interpreters:

	* JRuby
	* IronRuby
	* Rubinius


h1. Authors

Ryan Stenhouse	<ryan@ryanstenhouse.eu>
Mark Somerville <mark@scottishclimbs.com>


h1. License

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2 of the License, or any later version.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA