Heroku recently released the Scheduler add-on, for small-ish tasks:

http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2011/11/12/heroku_scheduler_add_on_now_available/

http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/scheduler

The included admin panel is quite nice.  (All free, except for dyno usage.)

On Thu, December 8, 2011 6:50 am, Neil Middleton wrote:
> The only thing I've seen worth mentioning is that Heroku recommend using
> this fork of Resque:
>
> http://github.com/hone/resque.git
>
> In particular the keepalive branch.  I'm unclear as to why.
>
> Neil
>
>
> On Thursday, 8 December 2011 at 14:46, Chap wrote:
>
>> Delayed Job has long been supported on heroku and I've had no issues
>> with it.
>>
>> Here's a couple of docs I would recommend you read:
>> http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/queueing
>> http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/delayed-job
>>
>> (It does seem that resque is the new favorite in the rails community,
>> but I have yet to give it a try because dj is so darn easy and hasn't
>> failed me yet.)
>>
>> On Dec 7, 7:53 pm, djangst <[email protected] (http://gmail.com)>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi, I'm looking for current advice on running background jobs on
>> > Heroku, most likely for a Rails app.
>> >
>> > Are there any particular gotchas to be aware of?
>> >
>> > Is there a preferred option among those available, such as Resque?
>> >
>> > Anything else? Thanks.
>>
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