# Backgroundrb - Connection closed **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [July 18, 2006, 3:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/backgroundrb-connection-closed/98835 "2006-07-18T15:34:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mrkohrea](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@mrkohrea](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mrkohrea)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 3:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/backgroundrb-connection-closed/98835/1 "2006-07-18T15:34:12Z")
Hello, maybe someone can help with backgroundrb. I’ve written an application, which makes use of backgroundrb. Everything works fine on my development machine, but it crashes on my production server. Something seems to be wrong with backgroundrb, but I don’t know the cause. All I get is the error message attached below, which is extracted from the production.log. I appreciate any help on this matter. Greetings Michael K. ## — errror message DRb::DRbConnError (connection closed): /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:567:in `load' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:629:in`recv\_reply’ /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:918:in `recv_reply' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1192:in`send\_message’ /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1083:in `method_missing' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1167:in`open’ /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1082:in `method_missing' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1100:in`with\_friend’ /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1081:in `method_missing' /app/controllers/search_controller.rb:100:in`start\_source\_processing’ /app/controllers/search\_controller.rb:99:in `start_source_processing' /app/controllers/search_controller.rb:20:in`simple’ /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.3/lib/action\_controller/base.rb:910:in `perform\_action\_without\_filters’ /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.3/lib/action\_controller/filters.rb:368:in `perform\_action\_without\_benchmark’ /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.3/lib/action\_controller/benchmarking.rb:69:in `perform_action_without_rescue' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/benchmark.rb:293:in`measure’ /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.3/lib/action\_controller/benchmarking.rb:69:in `perform\_action\_without\_rescue’ /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.3/lib/action\_controller/rescue.rb:82:in `perform\_action’ /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.3/lib/action\_controller/base.rb:381:in `process\_without\_filters’ /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.3/lib/action\_controller/filters.rb:377:in `process\_without\_session\_management\_support’ /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.3/lib/action\_controller/session\_management.rb:117:in `process' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.4/lib/dispatcher.rb:38:in`dispatch’ /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-0.3.12.4/lib/mongrel/rails.rb:66:in `process' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/thread.rb:135:in`synchronize’ /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-0.3.12.4/lib/mongrel/rails.rb:64:in `process' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-0.3.12.4/lib/mongrel.rb:425:in`process\_client’ /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-0.3.12.4/lib/mongrel.rb:424:in `process_client' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-0.3.12.4/lib/mongrel.rb:495:in`run’ /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-0.3.12.4/lib/mongrel.rb:494:in `run' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-0.3.12.4/lib/mongrel.rb:483:in`run’ /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-0.3.12.4/lib/mongrel.rb:774:in `run' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-0.3.12.4/lib/mongrel.rb:772:in`run’ /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-0.3.12.4/bin/mongrel\_rails:97:in `run’ /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-0.3.12.4/lib/mongrel/command.rb:163:in `run’ /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-0.3.12.4/bin/mongrel\_rails:194 /usr/local/bin/mongrel\_rails:18 ---
**Author:** ![mrkohrea](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@mrkohrea](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mrkohrea)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 7:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/backgroundrb-connection-closed/98835/2 "2006-07-18T19:17:41Z")
Hey Michael- ``` SO this works in development mode but not in production? That sounds ``` like a configuration issue to me. Can you go over your config file and make sure it is doing what you thihnk it should be doing? You need to make sure to set the environment to production in the config file as it defaults to development. -Ezra ---
**Author:** ![mrkohrea](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@mrkohrea](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mrkohrea)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 9:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/backgroundrb-connection-closed/98835/3 "2006-07-18T21:06:12Z")
Hello Ezra, that’s what I’d suppose too. But everything is set properly. Of course I’ve set the environment to production in config/backgroundrb.yml. I’m sort of stunned. I really don’t know, what else I can do. Greetings Michael K. ---
**Author:** ![mrkohrea](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@mrkohrea](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mrkohrea)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 12:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/backgroundrb-connection-closed/98835/4 "2006-07-19T00:27:49Z")
Michael- ``` Are you running this on OSX? I have seen a few issues with reverse ``` dns not working correctly on OSX for drb connections that return that same connection closed error. Try replacing the host in the config file with 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost. You will also need to do the saem to the acl list in the config. Try this and report back. THanks -Ezra ---
**Author:** ![mrkohrea](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@mrkohrea](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mrkohrea)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 9:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/backgroundrb-connection-closed/98835/5 "2007-06-05T09:55:48Z")
Hello1! I have the same error (connection closed) My config file is listed below: port: 2999 load\_rails: true environment: test host: [xxx.xxx.com](http://xxx.xxx.com) database\_yml: config/database.yml protocol: druby acl: :deny: all :allow: [xxx.xxx.com](http://xxx.xxx.com) :order: deny, allow when i replace :allow 127.0.0.1 then i have another kind of error: “connection closed by peer”. if i replace host: 127.0.0.1 i have error: " connection refused - connect(2)" (that error i encountered when run my test without backgroundrb server started) I do not know how i can escape from this…where error is - in the config or somewhere else… I appreciate any help on this matter. Thank you, Dmitry ---
**Author:** ![mrkohrea](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@mrkohrea](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mrkohrea)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 8:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/backgroundrb-connection-closed/98835/6 "2006-07-19T08:04:28Z")
Dear Ezra, I’ve swapped localhost with 127.0.0.1 and it’s working. Strange me, because I was sure that I had already tried that yesterday. Obviously not. Anyway: It’s working now! I am using FreeBSD(Release 6.0). Since OSX ist sort of BSDish, there could be a relation. Anyway, backgroundrb is way cool and I can imagine tons of interesting uses for it. Greetings and thank your very much for your patience and your help. And of course, thanks for backgroundrb!!! Michael ---
**Author:** ![mrkohrea](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@mrkohrea](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mrkohrea)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2007, 2:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/backgroundrb-connection-closed/98835/7 "2007-06-07T14:59:11Z")
ok, i got the solution. i put the url for the server, but needed the ip address.