Thanks Ivan, This is sweet as it would only load the rails stack once and have access to my models. Just like what I need. Let me try it out.
Cheers, Joshua On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Ivan Vanderbyl <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Josh, > This is a problem I had recently. Using Resque would probably be overkill, > as would delayed_job. > From what I gather you want to keep this script running in the background? > What I would do is use something like bluepill > (http://github.com/ivanvanderbyl/bluepill) and set it to daemonize your > script, which could be a rake task as it would then be able to load up your > entire rails stack (once) and have access to all your models etc. > Ivan > On 13/10/2010, at 10:42 AM, Joshua Partogi wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have another noobie question. After looking at last night > presentation about Rails 3, I am wondering where do we put piece of > code that runs on a separate thread for a long time every 5 seconds? > e.g > > Thread.new do > while true > queue = check_whether_there_is_something_new_in_the_queue > > while queue > 0 > Trends.create(:data => queue.data) > end > > sleep 5 > end > end > > > 1. I don't really like using cron to call `script/rails runner` as > that will load the whole rails library which will choke the server > because this process is run every 5 seconds. > 2. I don't know about resque (which was mentioned by Ryan) yet, but > since resque is a separate webapp, would resque know anything about > the models in my Rails app? > > > Any input is highly appreciated. > > Kind regards, > Josh -- http://twitter.com/scrum8 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
