SimpleWorker is probably cheaper and more flexible than Heroku Workers or cron jobs and is straightforward to use - http://www.simpleworker.com .
On Jul 14, 4:54 pm, James Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > You could do that with a cron job if it's the same thing every day. I don't > know of anything that can scale dynos based on load. > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Patrick Crowley <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I've used HireFire on heroku for a couple of projects to handle > > > workers (not dynos). It's worked great for occasional (user triggered) > > > jobs. When using it for larger batches of jobs (rake triggered), I've > > > had it choke on me a couple of times when going from zero to N > > > workers. Result: that app has a minimum_worker of 1. > > > Yeah, interesting. > > > In our case, we have one worker that needs to be around all the time, but > > doesn't get much load. > > > But I'd love to maybe scale down our dynos during late night / early > > morning hours to save some money. > > > -- Patrick > > > -- > > SD Ruby mailing list > > [email protected] > >http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
