Deploying backgroundrb

Often times you don't get to control what's on the server. Slave or daemon gem required by backgroundrb might not be on your server. To get around that, I froze the gem in the vendors directory. (ie. unpack the gem)

Then in the backgroundrb script under your script directory, add the following right before require 'backgroundrb_server'

# Load gems
if BACKGROUNDRB_STANDALONE == false
  rails_root = BACKGROUNDRB_ROOT
  gem_path = "#{rails_root}/vendor/gems/slave-1.2.1"
  lib_path = "#{gem_path}/lib"
  init_path = File.join(gem_path, "init.rb")
  $LOAD_PATH << lib_path
  
  eval(IO.read(init_path), binding, init_path)
end

It'll shoot up some warning, but you can ignore those, or write your own silent_warnings() method.