BackgrounDRb is a Ruby job server and scheduler. Its main intent is to be used with Ruby on Rails applications for offloading long-running tasks. Since a Rails application blocks while serving a request it is best to move long-running tasks off into a background process that is divorced from http request/response cycle. This is the RoR 3 version (Railtie based) of the gem. Please read the GitHub homepage for installation instructions.

BackgroundRB for Merb