No worries, if you run into any trouble getting it going let me know. 

Ivan

On 13/10/2010, at 10:55 AM, Joshua Partogi wrote:

> 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
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