@Pedro:

Here's a link to the stack trace:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ntWg7PKgyOnSmAVkURW00O5i_LEDFdRscE78NR-cSfg/edit?hl=en&authkey=CMnLv7UB

We're using RestClient gem version 1.4.2 with the Heroku gem version
1.17.8, FWIW.

@Chris:  That is good to know.  So it sounds like I don't need to
introduce a lag as Keenan suggests.

Thanks,
Jim

On Jan 21, 9:01 am, Chris Hanks <[email protected]> wrote:
> You can start up as many workers (or dynos, for that matter) as you
> want through the command line. 24 is just how high the slider goes on
> the pricing page.
>
> On Jan 21, 7:52 am, rubynoob <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I may misunderstand how workers get charged on heroku, but from what
> > I've seen 
> > athttp://docs.heroku.com/background-jobsandhttp://docs.heroku.com/delay..., 
> > workers get charged $0.05/hr each
> > no matter how many are running, pro-rated to the second.  The maximum
> > workers per account seems to be 24 (that's where the slider stops on
> > their Resources page).
>
> > The jobs being delayed won't be created faster than one every 30
> > seconds, so I assumed the first worker would spin up and grab the
> > first job, then when the second job gets queued, a second worker would
> > start, grabbing the second job, and so on.  Each job would process in
> > it's own worker, which would then get shut down when the job
> > completes.  One worker running three jobs that take a total of fifteen
> > minutes to process should get charged the same as three workers
> > running one job each for five minutes.  If I'm mistaken, let me know.
>
> > Thanks,
> > Jim
>
> > On Jan 20, 4:57 pm, Keenan Brock <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Also a thought.
>
> > > You will need to introduce a lag when you are determining if you need 
> > > more or less delayed job workers.
>
> > > Otherwise you will spin up too many DJs too quickly. And add/remove them 
> > > very often. Incurring extra charges.
>
> > > Smugmug spoke about this when they were talking about their on demand 
> > > photo processors a few years back.
>
> > > --Keenan
>
> > > On Jan 20, 2011, at 6:06 PM, Pedro Belo <[email protected]> wrote:> That 
> > > was a good call, you definitely don't want to store variables in
> > > > config vars. Save if for constants (passwords, urls, etc).
>
> > > > It seems like you might be getting an error due to different versions
> > > > of RestClient, not sure though. What version are you using? What's the
> > > > stack trace for the exception?
>
> > > > On a side note, if it helps you can call heroku workers passing
> > > > relative values, like +3, -1, etc.
>
> > > > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:00 PM, rubynoob <[email protected]> 
> > > > wrote:
> > > >> Instead of storing the count of active workers as a heroku config
> > > >> variable, I decided to create a table in our database to store the
> > > >> value in.
> > > >> So now I've got the problem narrowed down to the last line in the
> > > >> method.  Here's the block of code I've now got:
>
> > > >> add_heroku_worker
> > > >>                heroku = Heroku::Client.new(ENV['HEROKU_USERNAME'],
> > > >> ENV['HEROKU_PASSWORD'])
> > > >>                myapp = 
> > > >> heroku.config_vars(ENV['HEROKU_APP'])["HEROKU_APP"]
> > > >>                worker_count = WorkerCount.find(1)  # now I'm storing 
> > > >> the current
> > > >> number of active workers in a table that will always only have one
> > > >> record.
> > > >>                workers = worker_count.workers
> > > >>                qty = workers + 1
> > > >>                worker_count.workers = qty
> > > >>                worker_count.save
> > > >>                heroku.set_workers(myapp, qty)
> > > >> end
>
> > > >> In the heroku console, this runs smoothly until I try the last line,
> > > >> to which I get this error:  TypeError: can't convert
> > > >> RestClient::Payload::UrlEncoded into String
>
> > > >> This line is formatted the same as LostBoy's workless gem, the
> > > >> autoscaling tree of delayed_job, and Heroku-Delayed-Job-Autoscale.  I
> > > >> must be missing something obvious (typical newbie, huh?)   ;)
>
> > > >> Thanks again for any help,
> > > >> Jim
>
> > > >> On Jan 20, 9:16 am, Peter Haza <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > >>> I've done autoscaling of workers
> > > >>> here:https://github.com/phaza/Heroku-Delayed-Job-Autoscale
> > > >>> It's actually more like auto-shutdown of a single workers, but it 
> > > >>> works well
> > > >>> in our environment.
>
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