How to move scheduler.rake into a more reliable background job

Question

Basically... I just want to exactly move what is in scheduler.rake into a worker because I am hoping it is faster and more reliable.

What is the quickest way to do this? I am on Rails 3

Nothing fancy. Just quick.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 09 '15 at 01:40

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I would recommend using the whenever gem

in your Gemfile.

gem 'whenever', :require => false

This will create an initial config/schedule.rb file for you.

every 3.hours do
  # call background job
end

every 1.day, :at => '4:30 am' do
  # call background job
end

every :hour do 
  # call background job
end

every :sunday, :at => '12pm' do 
  # call background job
end

every '0 0 27-31 * *' do
  # call background job
end

I hope that this helps. Happy Hacking

answered Sep 09 '15 at 01:40

MZaragoza

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it does, it has to be set up right take a look at http://stackoverflow.com/a/8619815/1380867 for more info. – MZaragoza Sep 09 '15 at 01:53
you can also also use Heroku Scheduler to queue your jobs every 10 minutes – MZaragoza Sep 09 '15 at 01:56

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 09 '15 at 01:51

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If you are using Heroku Scheduler then you can configure what type of dyno starts for each job.

Note that jobs ran on Scheduler should complete before next scheduled task or they will be terminated.

For more advanced clock related work please see this (but it's not trivial): https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/scheduled-jobs-custom-clock-processes

answered Sep 09 '15 at 01:51

Zepplock

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I don't like how scheduler is 'best effort' I want to quickly kick off reliable background processes. – slindsey3000 Sep 17 '15 at 14:01

How to move scheduler.rake into a more reliable background job

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