Actually, kue looks like a resque-like thing: http://learnboost.github.com/kue/

Ted

On Oct 11, 2012, at 1:52 PM, Ted Young <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sounds like you just want a node service that does the scraping, and provides 
> an http api for adding tasks and querying what tasks are currently running.  
> Then have a separate command-line app that can talk to the web service.  And 
> maybe also an express app that can talk to it via a browser.  I use that 
> pattern a lot, but haven't yet written an abstraction for it.  An abstraction 
> for easily banging out command-line apps with tab-complete, etc that just 
> talk to web services would be a useful thingie though.
> 
> I'm not sure if there's a generic node-based job-processor out there, but you 
> might like https://github.com/defunkt/resque.  It's ruby, but each job could 
> just be a system call to start a node process.
> 
> Ted
> 
> On Oct 5, 2012, at 4:22 AM, Guilherme Pim <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Okay, my bad!
>> 
>> I am crawling some web pages to populate a database, and currently doing 
>> that with Grunt (http://gruntjs.com/), which is a task-based 'build tool' 
>> (that gets me confused, is it supposed to solely build?). 
>> 
>> So, I have created some scripts in the following manner: 
>> 
>> ========== Task file ==========
>> 
>> module.exports = function (grunt) {
>> 
>>     grunt.registerTask('courses/update-info', 'Updates all courses info on 
>> the database', ... )
>> 
>> }
>> 
>> ============================
>> 
>> So then I may have a somewhat controlled access to these jobs from the 
>> terminal, with ability to list all existing jobs and their descriptions. 
>> Also, I may pass some parameters to each task, although it's not very 
>> readable because they can't be associated with a name:
>> 
>> grunt courses/update-info:4:5:2 (these will be passed as the tasks's 
>> function arguments)
>> 
>> I guess I could go about creating node scripts and using a parameters 
>> library along with console colors and stuff, but I would rather find a 
>> framework, if such exists.
>> 
>> Did I make myself clearer at all? haha
>> 
>> Thanks for you time,
>> Guilherme
>> 
>> 2012/10/5 Nuno Job <[email protected]>
>> Can you share some more details on what you are trying to accomplish?
>> 
>> You have talked about tools (both of which I am unaware of) and said 
>> "batch", but apart from that there wasn't much more that could help anyone 
>> make an informed suggestion.
>> 
>> Let me know, I'll try to help :)
>> Nuno
>> 
>> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Guilherme Pim <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>> 
>> Having the need to synchronize some data with external sources, I have 
>> written some tasks on Grunt to do so. I wonder if Grunt is actually the tool 
>> to write batch jobs in, or there actually is some other alternative.
>> 
>> I have come across Node.io, but I rather stick to Grunt in this case. Do you 
>> guys know about some alternatives, please?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> Guilherme
>> 
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