Seriously? IMO, it's overkill to write your own jobs queue management, plus a worker, rather than just using delayed_job's queue and worker - or any other lib for that matter.
Anything else is reinventing the wheel, only your wheel probably ends up being an octagon or something less than round... On 13/10/2010, at 10:51 AM, Ivan Vanderbyl 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 rails-ocea...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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 rails-ocea...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 rails-ocea...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
