On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 23 March 2013 21:37, tamouse mailing lists <tamouse.li...@gmail.com> wrote: >> ... >> The primary issue when you bring in multiple servers is >> synchronization of the workers. Cron can't do that, as it only knows >> about one server. Having something that workers can distribute over >> requires something more sophisticated. That's what DJ is really about. >> Using clockwork makes it all the easier coming from cron. > > Since all the OP is trying to do (I believe) is run a task > occasionally to purge obsolete data from the database are those issues > actually a problem?
Since the person I was answering directly asked about scaling to multipler servers, I'd say yes. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
