Making Amara services available over Beanstalkd

Getting started

• "Installing beanstalkd and pybeanstalk on Ubuntu"

• "Setting Up Beanstalkd on Ubuntu for Python" -- a nice recipe

• "Beanstalkd / Python Basic Tutorial" -- a nice tutorial

• See also:

  • http://simonwillison.net/2008/May/12/beanstalkd/

  • http://code.google.com/p/pybeanstalk/

Recipe for Ubuntu Hoary

export DL=$HOME/dl
export SRC=$HOME/src

sudo apt-get install libevent1 libevent-dev #(just 1.3e for now, not latest 1.4.8)
cd $DL; wget http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd/rel/beanstalkd-1.0.tar.gz; cd $SRC
tar zxvf $DL/beanstalkd-*.tar.gz
cd beanstalkd*
make

easy_install PyYAML

# now you should be able to start the beanstalkd daemon
./beanstalkd -d -p 99988

# get the python beanstalkd client
# either get a package:
# cd $DL
# wget http://pybeanstalk.googlecode.com/files/pybeanstalk-0.11.1.tar.gz
# tar zxvf $DL/pybeanstalk-*.tar.gz
# cd $SRC
# 
cd $SRC
svn checkout http://pybeanstalk.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ pybeanstalk-SVN
cd pybeanstalk-SVN
python setup.py install

# quick test
# open two different shells (or use screen) type the following in the two different shells:
cd examples
python simple_clients.py producer localhost 99988
python simple_clients.py consumer localhost 99988
#ctrl-c for each to exit

Serialize requests to Amara

• PHPSerialize