Replace Backgroundrb

[mtylty]

Backgroundrb is shitty, should we begin considering an alternative? Maybe the next milestone?

[dguerri]

Backgroundrb isn't actively maintained anymore (AFAIK) but it is still doing its job.
What benefits you're seeing in this? What are the alternatives?

[dguerri]

I vote for Sidekiq. Very simple and efficient.
Moreover it seems to be very close to a drop-in replacement for backgroundrb.

[AndreaFerraresi]

I've read a bit about sidekiq and seems not to be thread safe, do you know if we got some thread unsafe parts in our code? it should be risky if any

[dguerri]

Actually sidekiq itself is threadsafe. But since it's multithread so we should check our code is thread-safe.
OWUMS, OWM and OWGM backgroundrb jobs are really simple so threadsafe-ness shouldn't be a problem...

[AndreaFerraresi]

Ok seems to be a good option but, OWM must be rewritten in rails 3 in order to use sidekiq i suppose, in this case a refactoring should be useful so why not merge the OWM and OWGM? I will repost this question in OWM soon

[dguerri]

+1 for the merge!