Fork support detection not working for IronRuby about resque HOT 5 CLOSED

Hey thbar - I don't know if this works with IronRuby, but in the past (in dealing with doing windows support for the Vegas gem) I came across the win32-process gem http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/win32-process/ which provides a version of .fork (and other Kernel methods) for Windows.

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My understanding is that win32-process doesn't work with IronRuby - I just asked the IronRuby mailing list to see what are the plans with fork.

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I just made this quick fix, and after that I was able to achieve Job consumption / failure etc with IronRuby:

def fork
@cant_fork = true if RUBY_ENGINE == 'ironruby'

Could this be included (even temporarily) in Resque, until IronRuby implements some form of Kernel.fork itself ?

It would allow out of the box workers in IronRuby, which opens a whole lot of possibilities on Windows :)

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After pinging the IronRuby mailing list, looks like the plans are to raise the NotImplementedError when called on Kernel.fork - just like MRI.

In the mean time, one possibility here is to not modify Resque, and tell people willing to use Resque (FAQ) to use this:

http://gist.github.com/286052

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As of 95e760e Resque should do the correct thing if Kernel.fork isn't provided. Please let me know if this doesn't work - thanks!

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