Background Jobs with DJ on Heroku(blog.heroku.com)

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http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2009/7/15/background_jobs_with_dj_on_heroku/

3 comments

qrush16 anni fa

This is a really old post, see this update: http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2009/12/3/dj_has_evolved_int...

sarosh16 anni fa

Yes - I actually was trying to work through the stuff above and it didn't quite 'click'. I'm also looking at 'other' frameworks that achieve the same thing...

Thanks for the update tho!

sunkencity16 anni fa

heroku's awesome but the lack of minute or five minute cron is dealbreaker for me, thus i need my own servers to be able to schedule mailings

jamesheroku16 anni fa

For sub-hour scheduled or recurring tasks, most users prefer a scheduled background task with DJ, rather than old-school cron. There are a bunch of ways to do this, for example:

   Delayed::Job.enqueue(work, 0, Time.now + 5.minutes)

Docs: http://docs.heroku.com/delayed-job

sunkencity16 anni fa

Great! I posted that hoping that there would be a solution. I've looked around delauyed job trying to find some scheduling funciton but I didn't look close enough it seems. Thanx!

jcapote16 anni fa

You could have a cheapo server be the "timekeeper" that sends a web request every minute to a heroku app which in turn does whatever you need.

pibefision16 anni fa

Great news!. I've started to use Heroku for hosting, and i'm very impressed.

I really would like to have a plan between $15 and $200 too.