# Fetching RSS feeds in background

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fetching-rss-feeds-in-background/89368>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 19, 2007, 11:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fetching-rss-feeds-in-background/89368 "2007-03-19T23:18:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Behi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bc79bd/32.png) [@Behi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Behi)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 11:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fetching-rss-feeds-in-background/89368/1 "2007-03-19T23:18:09Z")

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Hi all,

How would you implement an RSS feed fetcher that works in background  
in an RoR application? It looks like backgroundrb is the way to go,  
but it doesn’t work in Windoze…

Regards,  
Behi

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**Author:** ![Behi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bc79bd/32.png) [@Behi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Behi)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 6:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fetching-rss-feeds-in-background/89368/2 "2007-03-20T06:02:53Z")

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The versions of backgroundrb before 0.2.0 do work in Windows, but  
you’ll not get any support for it. Unfortunately, I can’t seem to  
find an archive of the older version via google. Maybe you can dig it  
up?

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**Author:** ![Behi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bc79bd/32.png) [@Behi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Behi)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 8:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fetching-rss-feeds-in-background/89368/3 "2007-03-20T08:31:31Z")

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Hi,

Yeah… the fact that it is deprecated on Windows was a show stopper  
for me.  
I wanted something reliable. Seems like daemon\_generator is the way to  
go.  
Any thoughts on that?

Regards,  
Behi

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**Author:** ![Behi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bc79bd/32.png) [@Behi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Behi)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2007, 3:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fetching-rss-feeds-in-background/89368/4 "2007-05-14T15:58:19Z")

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Here is a copy of the previous version that runs under windows: