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 > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
