Ryan Smith

Yes. A forking worker is absolutely supposed to work on 3.0.0. The fact that it is not is a bug.

@2468ben Do you think we could fix the issue without creating a connection pool? Is there a simpler fix? Also, to my knowledge, there isn't any active development on this...

As I alluded in a [tweet](https://twitter.com/ryandotsmith/status/421030545154269184), you can almost do this today. ``` ruby worker = QC::Worker.new QC.count.times {woerker.work} ``` The problem is that `QC::Worker#work` spins on the worker's `@running`...

Great point. If we had the right primitives, we could easily wrap them up into a QC provided Rake task.

Hello. I suspect this bug still exists in the project. I have given this type of problem a lot of thought over the years through my experiences with [queue_classic](https://github.com/ryandotsmith/queue_classic); so...

I will also say that if @thisandagain is interested in this direction, I would be more than happy to start working on a pull request.

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