gearman-ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'gearman'

servers = ['localhost:4730', 'localhost:4731']

client = Gearman::Client.new(servers)
taskset = Gearman::TaskSet.new(client)

task = Gearman::Task.new('sleep', 20)
task.on_complete {|d| puts d }

taskset.add_task(task)
taskset.wait(100)

require 'rubygems'
require 'logger'
require 'gearman'

servers = ['localhost:4730']

w = Gearman::Worker.new(servers)
logger = Logger.new(STDOUT)

# Add a handler for a "sleep" function that takes a single argument, the
# number of seconds to sleep before reporting success.
w.add_ability("sleep") do |data,job|
 seconds = 10
 logger.info "Sleeping for #{seconds} seconds"
 (1..seconds.to_i).each do |i|
   sleep 1
   # Report our progress to the job server every second.
   job.report_status(i, seconds)
 end
 # Report success.
 true
end

loop { w.work }