Pass variables between separate instances of ruby (without writing to a text file or database)
- by boulder_ruby
Lets say I'm running a long worker-script in one of several open interactive rails consoles.
The script is updating columns in a very, very, very large table of records. I've muted the ActiveRecord logger to speed up the process, and instruct the script to output some record of progress so I know how roughly how long the process is going to take.…