Remoteling

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Remoteling:

 - redis server, everybody gets a private redis slice
 - starling FIFO queue server, everybody can push & pop to it
 - remoteling queue
    - I can fire off processes that execute remotely from my app
    - I can set up N resident processes running on the remoteling server
          - Easy producer/consumer model
          - Billing? Information gathering when new users show up? (see example A below)
    
Client Functions:

Remoteling.config({:key=>'foodebar'})

Remoteling.set('key','value')
Remoteling.get('key') # = value

### On the remoteling site, I can specify ways of getting my code to Remoteling & naming it

Remoteling.run('foobarProc', 'var1','var2') # returns maybe an ID for the remoteling process, false if it wasn't able to spawn it off
Remoteling.run('foobarProc', 'var1','var2', :synchronous=>true) # returns whatever the process returns, doesn't fork

# the following is a possibility
Remoteling.run(1,2) {|a,b|
    data = 0
    5.billion.times.do { data += a*b }
    
    Cache.store('results_of_my_shindig', data)
    }
sleep 10
Remoteling.get('results_of_my_shindog') # 15 billion


Remoteling.queue.push('item1')
Remoteling.queue.push('item2')
Remoteling.queue.pop # = item1
Remoteling.queue.pop # = item2


#### Example A ####
def User
    after_create :get_twitter_followers

    def twitter_followers
        Remoteling.get('twitter_followers.'+self.twitter_username) || 'Calculating...'
    end

private

    def get_twitter_followers
        Remoteling.run('get_twitter_followers',self.twitter_username)
    end
end