Hi All,
I am using custom data collection agents to periodically poll a given
data source on the internet, for a given user of our application. I
would like to create a backgroundrb worker, per type of data source,
per user, to kick off the associated data collection agent in it's own
background process.
I have looked at the docs and I am wondering if using
MiddleMan.new_worker would suffice. I could have the worker's "create"
method kick off the data collection agent. Is there some additional
benefit to moving the agent creation logic to the "async_some_task"
worker functionality instead? I would like each worker and associated
agent to run in their own process / thread to unload the burden from
the Rails application.
On a related note, I also need to kill the data collection agent when
the user is no longer interested in collecting data from a particular
source. I plan to create the worker with a unique worker_key. Will
using that worker_key along with the worker name / type in the delete
method only kill the worker of that name associated with the given
key? I need workers of the same type with different keys to keep
processing. By killing the worker, will the data collection agent
created by that worker also be destroyed?
I hope my questions are clear enough. I greatly appreciate any help.
--Mike
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