Is it possible to use a Cron Job to start a worker, run a series of jobs and then shut down the worker?
Basically I am going to have a few jobs that need to run once a day. I need to update a large number of records from a supplier on a daily or weekly basis. The job will take a couple hours, but I don't want to have a worker running all day as they will be idle the 80% of the time. Should I just use a cron job on the main dyno. Is there a time limit for a cron job and will this slow the main server? I could run it at 2AM, when the site is mostly idle. Or is there a way to start a worker, run the jobs and shut down the worker once the jobs are done from cron? What is the best way to implement this? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to her...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en.
