Re: How do you run custom script with rails ?

Paritosh P.
Sun, 23 Dec 2012 19:29:45 -0000

Scott Ribe wrote in post #1090011:
> On Dec 23, 2012, at 2:24 AM, Paritosh P. wrote:
>
>> Currently, i thought of using
>> `custom_script agr1 arg2`
>> in my controller/model  . Is it good ? Or you handle it in some other
>> way ?
>
> Depends on awful lot on the script itself. It''s not necessarily a
bad
> idea, but...
>
> For instance, how long will the script take to run? Is it OK to tie up a
> worker process waiting on it? Does the user expect to see the
> result/confirmation of the script''s action right away? Does the
user
> only need to see the final result, or do they need updates/info on its
> progress?
>
> Depending on the particulars, it *might* be better to push the request
> on a queue, and have another process executing those requests in the
> background. There are utilities for this...
>
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> Scott Ribe
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Thanks scott . I will keep this thing in mind .may be i will use
deplayedjob or something like that . My motive is to start some script ,
it will take hour to finish. In this meantime, a user can also start
same process again with different entity or cancel/resume ongoing
processes .