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Gearman examples under Mac OS X

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Today I listened in on the O’Reilly webcast Introduction to Gearman by Eric Day of Rackspace. I thought I would follow through on the machine at hand; a Mac with OS X 10.5, however I again got caught up with the gearman PHP extension integration. A look at and older post Getting started with Gearman based on Ubuntu needed an update for Mac.

First I downloaded and installed the latest gearman. This was version 0.12 and includes libgearman 0.7.
You should always check for any more recent updates.

wget http://launchpad.net/gearmand/trunk/0.12/+download/gearmand-0.12.tar.gz
tar xvfz gearmand-0.12.tar.gz
cd gearmand-0.12
./configure
make
sudo make install
ls -l /usr/local/lib/libg*
#-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  79808 Mar 12 13:33 /usr/local/lib/libgearman.4.dylib
#lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     18 Mar 12 13:33 /usr/local/lib/libgearman.dylib -> libgearman.4.dylib
#-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    960 Mar 12 13:33 /usr/local/lib/libgearman.la

gearmand was installed in /usr/local/sbin and gearman installed in /usr/local/bin

Next we needed the gearman PHP extension from pecl

wget http://pecl.php.net/get/gearman-0.7.0.tgz
tar xvfz gearman-0.7.0.tgz
cd gearman-0.7.0
phpize
./configure
make
sudo make install
# Installing shared extensions:     /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/

Take note of the extension location, as I needed this for the next step.

Php was already installed, which was good.

$ which php
/usr/bin/php

However I found no configuration loaded.

$ php --info | grep -i configuration
Configuration File (php.ini) Path => /etc
Loaded Configuration File => (none)
Configuration

What exists is a default example only. In order to include the gearman extension I needed to do the following.

$ sudo cp /etc/php.ini.default /etc/php.ini
$ sudo vi /etc/php.ini

# Set extension directory
extension_dir = "/usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/"
# Add Gearman extension
extension="gearman.so"

And a confirmation.

$ php --info | egrep -i "(configuration|gearman)"
Configuration File (php.ini) Path => /etc
Loaded Configuration File => /private/etc/php.ini
Configuration
gearman
gearman support => enabled
libgearman version => 0.12

Ready now to try out the PHP examples.

Getting started with Gearman

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Gearman is an open source generic framework for distributed processing. At OSCON 2009 I attended the Gearman: Build Your Own Distributed Platform in 3 Hours tutorial.

While it’s very easy to install Gearman, and follow the first example, if you missed the all important additional PHP steps listed on just one slide you may be left with the “‘Class ‘GearmanClient’ not found” error.

The following are detailed instructions for the installation and configuration of Gearman and PHP on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty.

Add the Drizzle PPA to get pre-packaged versions of Gearman.

cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.orig
echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/drizzle-developers/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/drizzle-developers/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 06899068
apt-get update

Get the gearman packages

apt-get install -y gearman gearman-job-server gearman-tools libgearman1 libgearman-dev libgearman-dbg libgearman-doc

Get the German PHP extension.

wget http://pecl.php.net/get/gearman-0.4.0.tgz
tar xvfz gearman-0.4.0.tgz
cd gearman-0.4.0/
phpize
./configure
make
make install

If phpize is not available then you are missing the development packages.

$ apt get php5-dev

You also configure PHP to load the extension. This will vary on different Linux environments. In this case.

echo 'extension="gearman.so"' >>/etc/php5/cli/php.ini

Verify the PHP Gearman extension is configured.

$ php --info | grep gearman
gearman
gearman support => enabled
libgearman version => 0.8

Now you are ready for working with the Gearman PHP examples.