# Dreamhost + backgroundrb?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost-backgroundrb/108038>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 28, 2007, 4:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost-backgroundrb/108038 "2007-06-28T16:48:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![stewbawka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@stewbawka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/stewbawka)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 4:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost-backgroundrb/108038/1 "2007-06-28T16:48:44Z")

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Hey all,

I’ve decided that my rails app needs backgroundrb to handle some  
background processing here and there… i have hosting with dreamhost  
and i’m starting to realize that it may be a problem getting my app to  
work properly on there when i add backgroundrb… anybody have any  
experience with this? is there any shared hosting that can handle  
it ?? thanks a bunch

Stuart

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**Author:** ![stewbawka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@stewbawka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/stewbawka)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 8:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost-backgroundrb/108038/2 "2007-06-28T20:35:19Z")

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Howdy,  
If you can’t get it to work, I’ve successfully used cron and it’s  
Rubyfied friends at DreamHost. You could do periodic processing that  
way at least.

Haven’t tried BDRb there yet, but I can’t see why it would be a  
terrible problem so long as you have a cron job or something like that  
to make sure the processes are restarted when they’re inevitably  
killed and your data stays sane (DH has a weird problem with killing  
processes at random…sometimes I can’t even check Rails out from SVN  
before it kills it other times I can run a process in excess of 5  
minutes without a problem).

–Jeremy

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