On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Genji <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello there, > > I'm still "new" to ruby on rails, i try to create a little > browsergame. For that, I have to control the "resources" of a village. > For example: > The village got a wood rate of 200 per hour, so i want to call every > hour a method/action (anything) that count the 200 to the rest wood. > But of course, i need to do this with every village. > > Since yet I did some easy code with delayed job and it all worked > fine, but now i think about how to create this big background job. One > option to start it would be at the first creation of a village but > how? But i thought about it, setting it up with delayed job and > running an method that check hundreds of villages, it sounds a little > nonproductive and a waste of time. > Btw. that would mean, that one worker is all the time busy and can't > do anything else or not? I mean thats really annoying cause he is > frozen for the most time - doing nothing. What of course mean i need a > second worker and then heroku is not "for free" anymore? > So what do you think is the best way(with or without delayed_job) to > handle this job? > > Has anyone an example site which had the same problem? > > Ps: is there a way to start the code every full hour? I think using > sleep could be a second problem with many villages. For that long > running code it wouldn't be anymore "every full hour" it would turn in > every hour and a half, or not? > > Everytime the page loads, compute the total resources of the user based on the last time you updated the resources of that user. Then add a js that would send an ajax request that would update the resources. No background job needed. So for example, a user last logged out at 7:00 PM. The next day, that same user logged in at 7:30 AM. That would mean that that user's resources should increase by 12 hours worth of resources and your js should fire after 30 mins. > Greetings > Genji > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------- visit my blog at http://jimlabs.heroku.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
