On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 5:30 AM, Ido Perlmuter <i...@ido50.net> wrote:
> I'm looking for direction on how to possibly implement a feature in a > Catalyst app that automatically performs some action, or actions, when the > app is idle and hasn't been accepting requests (either none or some small > number). For example, let's say I want my app to take advantage of such > situations by indexing documents to KinoSearch, rebuilding a sitemap.xml > file, whatever. > Doesn't really seems like the job of a Catalyst app to run background tasks. What's wrong with cron? It can run a script and see if the machine's load is low (or some other measurement) before deciding to run. > Thing is, I do not want (if possible) to implement a job queue such as > TheSchwartz. I do not want an outside worker, I want my app to be the > worker, and let it decide by itself what to do instead of take jobs from a > queue. > Yes, you do want an outside worker. It can be part of your app, but it should be separate from Catalyst. Put it in a model class. Ok, sure you could have cron run App/script/app_test.pl /path/to/action but why load all of Catalyst just to run some code in your application? -- Bill Moseley mose...@hank.org
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