This application was created to debug rails, nanite, nanite-plugin, rufus-scheduler and passenger.

• git clone this repo

• setup rabbitmq if necessary (see http://github.com/ezmobius/nanite)

• make sure you setup rabbitmq permissions (can try running rake nanite:rabbitmq as root)

• run the rails app. I use passenger, so I setup a new vhost like this:

  
    
      ServerName goo.local
      DocumentRoot /Users/farra/dev/goo/public
    
  

• run the counter nanite agent:

  ./script/nanite -a counter start

• visit the website at http://goo.local (or http://localhost:3000 if you use that)

It's a simple rails app with a single controller and a single model. The Count model just keeps a totel. The counts controller:

• shows the current count (the first Count model)
• allows you to manual increment the count
• allows you to send a Nanite request to increment the count
• allows you to schedule a repeating background job to increment the count

There is a single nanite actor:

• /counters/increment :: sends an HTTP POST to the increment path
• /counters/schedule :: schedules a repeating job to send an HTTP POST to the async increment path

The scheduler is a bit convoluted, mostly to properly exercise the whole chain of events. When you press the schedule button, the following happens:

• the rails app processes the HTTP POST and sends a Nanite request to /counters/schedule
• the schedule agent creates a rufus-scheduler job to repeatedly send an HTTP POST request to the async increment path
• the job triggers, sending the HTTP POST
• the rails app gets the HTTP POST and in turn sends another Nanite request to the /counters/increment agent
• the /counters/increment agent sends an HTTP POST to the rails increment path
• the rails app increments the count

When run under passenger, this app will occasionally break, giving you a RuntimeError (eventmachine not initialized: evma_send_data_to_connection) error. This app is an attempt to debug this behavior.

The error tends to occur on startup. If you don't get it, try restarting the app.

See [this thread on the nanite google group][1] for more information.

This project was developed via the following approximate steps

• rails goo
• cd goo
• script/plugin install git://github.com/dcu/nanite-rails.git
• ./script/generate nanite
• ./script/generate agent counter schedule count
• ./script/generate model Count total:integer interval:integer
• ./script/generate controller counts
• rake db:migrate
• modify environment.rb
• modify routes.rb
• setup passenger vhosts
• edit the counts_counter and the count nanite agent

[1] http://groups.google.com/group/nanite/browse_thread/thread/22af18ad9677be57?hl=en