sudo gem install chronic packet

Now we are ready to install backgroundrb , for this we need to do

script/plugin install svn://rubyforge.org//var/svn/backgroundrb

Now backgroundrb plugin is installed on our application, now set it up using the command

rake backgroundrb:setup :this will create three files on our application

creates a config file backgroundrb.yml in config directory of your rails application.
Creates RAILS_ROOT/lib/workers directory for keeping BackgrounDRb workers in one place.
Creates RAILS_ROOT/test/bdrb_test_helper.rb as a test helper for your workers

How this helps to balance the load is very interesting. Here we have one class called “worker“. Using this worker class we can make our time-consuming tasks run in the background of application, instead of running in controller.Now we can create our worker using the command

./script/generate worker <classname> which will generate your worker class and there you can write your time taking process.

Now we can invoke the worker on request using

MiddleMan.new_worker :class => :name_of_your_worker, :args => {arguments to pass}

Before you start your web server do start backgroundrb, you can start and stop this by

./script/backgroundrb/start
./script/backgroundrb/stop

Now our app will act as multi threaded. Try an example given below

Let me first thank my colleague Mr.Unni for his code on “downloading the song from YouTube using a ruby script”, I am borrowing few parts of it. So in the sample app you can download a song from YouTube using the URL of that particular song. Here Backgroundrb plays well to download multiple songs at same time by running it on background. Run this app on clicking the link below:
Download and run me

1.Download source

2.Extract(unzip)

3.Install

Now run

$ shoes

Which will give take you to a graphical mode there you can choose your ruby file for shoes.Or run your shoes file by

$ shoes <filename.rb>

Here is examples to show the simplicity and elegance of ruby shoes.Start with a small ones

Example for a button click
Shoes.app {
button("Hello") { alert("You have clicked on hello") }
}
example for drop down box
shape = nil
Shoes.app do
shape = list_box :items => ["Square", "Oval", "Rectangle"]
button "Report" do
Shoes.p [shape.text]
end
end

You can see all the methods available for shoes “CLICK ME” or type on command line
$ shoes --manual - you can see a helper.

Ideal example to see the power of shoes is given below , in those few lines its doing a big job !!
Shoes.app :width => 500, :height => 100, :margin => 10 do
def answer(v)
@answer.replace v.inspect
end
button "Ask" do
answer ask("Enter your name")
end
button "Confirm" do
answer confirm("Like to proceed??")
end
button "Open File" do
answer ask_open_file
end
button "Save File" do
answer ask_save_file
end
button "Select Your Color" do
answer ask_color("Select yours")
end
@answer = para "Answers appear here"
end

Installation is very simple

$ gem install ramaze installing as rubygem

Now your ramaze is ready to use.You can build ur applications by saying

$ ramaze --create my_app

Which will give u the basic format and you can edit and build your application in the way you want.Ramaze follows MVC architecture , unlike Rails it can work on a single ruby program also.You can run your ramaze application like

$ramaze or
$ruby start.rb

Or if u want to run a single script just run
$ ruby yourscript.rb

Ramaze is well documented with basic examples and easy to use even for a newbie.Ramaze stays close to the ruby’s principles such as simplicity n elegance.Basically Ramaze contains a controller called MainController and which maps to ‘/’. Here data is getting saved in a ‘.yaml’ file instead of database.

class MainController < Ramaze::Controller
end

Also we can map to other URL s if we want.Its pretty simpler than Rails i guess.

class AnotherController < Ramaze::Controller
map '/another'
end
You will get the basic examples to run your application from here.

Ramaze supports a lot of templating engines and such as Haml, Erubis,Markaby an d Ezmar.Also includes support for several adapters, including Mongrel, Evented Mongrel and FastCGIetc.
In the homepage of Ramaze you can see the tutorials ,just give a try you will understand more.