I'll +1 on IronWorker. I used it on my most recent application (slottd.com) 
for both background processing (sending emails) and scheduled job (call 
back to a destroy action in 10 minutes). Was very easy.

-Corey

On Saturday, December 10, 2011 12:57:36 PM UTC-6, Chad Arimura wrote:
>
> Hey DJ Angst,
>
> You can also check out IronWorker <http://www.iron.io> (formerly 
> SimpleWorker).  It provides background processing / task queues as a 
> service and delivers on demand scalability no matter how few or how many 
> jobs you want to run.  We've got users runnings thousands of jobs in 
> parallel with no issues.
>
> The two considerations are that IronWorker does not have access to the 
> Heroku shared database because they don't allow outside connections, and we 
> also run outside your Rails stack so you'll need to pass along some config 
> and models, but we can help you with this if your use-case happens to be 
> complex. We believe that developers should never have to worry about 
> complex infrastructure giving you more time to build your apps.
>
> Check it out: http://www.iron.io.
>
> Disclosure: I'm one of the co-founders of IronWorker.
>
> Chad Arimura
> Iron.io
>

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