This is one way to implement it: http://blog.darkhax.com/2010/07/30/auto-scale-your-resque-workers-on-heroku
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Arpan <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it possible to use a Cron Job to start a worker, run a series of > jobs and then shut down the worker? > > Basically I am going to have a few jobs that need to run once a day. I > need to update a large number of records from a supplier on a daily or > weekly basis. > > The job will take a couple hours, but I don't want to have a worker > running all day as they will be idle the 80% of the time. > > Should I just use a cron job on the main dyno. Is there a time limit > for a cron job and will this slow the main server? I could run it at > 2AM, when the site is mostly idle. > > Or is there a way to start a worker, run the jobs and shut down the > worker once the jobs are done from cron? > > What is the best way to implement this? > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
