DuckCorp » Spoolinger

h1. Presentation

The Spoolinger is a generic "spool":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spooling manager, watching for incoming files in a specific directory and scheduling their processing.

Features:

  - scheduling based on concurrency and min/max age

  - gathering of file data using file name and content regex to be used in pattern replacement

  - cancel mode (with pattern replacement)

  - running of an external processing command (with pattern replacement)

  - "load check" via external command or Ruby plugin to allow processing depending on external conditions

  - logging with ajustable verbosity to help debug problems

h1. Installation

Build Dependencies:

* ruby-setup

Runtime Dependencies:

* ruby-log4r

* ruby-daemons

* ruby-eventmachine

* ruby-activesupport

* librb-inotify-ruby

* kwalify

h2. for a real install in /usr/local

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ruby setup.rb config

ruby setup.rb setup

ruby setup.rb install

ruby setup.rb clean

</pre>

h2. for packagers

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ruby setup.rb config --installdirs=std

ruby setup.rb setup

ruby setup.rb install --prefix=debian/spoolinger

ruby setup.rb clean

</pre>

h2. for in-place tests

<pre>

ruby setup.rb config --bindir=bin --rbdir=lib --datadir=data --sysconfdir=conf --localstatedir=var --shebang=never

ruby setup.rb setup

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Do tests, and when finished:

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ruby setup.rb clean

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h1. Configuration

See [[Configuration]] and examples in source:examples.