Thanks Yuri! That sounds like a viable option.
2009/4/24 Yuri Niyazov <[email protected]>: > Heroku supports hourly cron jobs. if that's not often enough, and you have a > cheap shell account somewhere else, you can set up a cron job there that > every 30 seconds does a wget to a URL in your heroku app; if you put the > background tasks into a table, then you will have a poor man's work queue. > Not ideal, but it will tide you over until Delayed Jobs becomes stable and > widely available. > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Felix Holmgren <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hi everyone. I'm thinking of developing a project specifically for >> deployment on Heroku, and would appreciate some advice from the >> community and staff. >> >> The app is basically an RSS collector with a web service API to be >> consumed by clients. I want to use Sinatra for the web service. >> >> However, by the nature of this app, I need to run background processes >> more or less constantly. I had problems deploying a Rails app with >> background processing earlier, and had to move it back to my old >> server, but I'd really like to make this work with Heroku. >> >> I see Delayed Job is in beta. How can I try it out? And any hints >> about when Workling might become available? >> >> Also, does anyone have advice on whether using these background job >> frameworks is really the best way of structuring an app like this. >> Perhaps it would be better to just have the RSS collector running as a >> separate app? Is it possible to have two apps on the cloud share a >> data base? >> >> Any advice would be ridiculously appreciated! >> >> /Felix >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
