Re: Rails way to do long running tasks

Chris
2009-06-13T18:57:47Z

Thanks a lot for the pointers and the great suggestions.

I really do find BackgrounDrb too heavy for my implementation - and
think the gems you described make sense.

Spawn plugin and Javan-whenever is great.  And there is a Railscast
that is really good in explaining:
http://railscasts.com/episodes/164-cron-in-ruby


On Jun 8, 7:35 am, Sandip Ransing
<san2...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> @Bharat,
>
> Can you give brief why to use javan instead backgroundrb ?
> As, i am using backgroundrb for heavy upload duties and it works fine for
> me.
>
> - Sandip R~
>
> On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Bharat
<bcrupa...-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > Two pointers from personal experience:
>
> > 1.  Don''t use backgroundrb for asynchronous processing
> > 2.  Do use javan-whenever to automate your cron jobs (available on
> > Github)
>
> > Bharat
>
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