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Spinning Background Tasks in Rails

Asked 2008-12-23T02:32:34.397
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What is the preferred way to create a background task for a Rails application? I've heard of Starling/Workling and the good ol' script/runner, but I am curious which is becoming the defacto way to manage this need?

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Clarification: I like the idea of Rake in Background, but the problem is, I need something that is running constantly or every 10 hours. I am not going to have the luxury of sitting on a web request, it will need to be started by the server asynchronous to the activities occurring on my site.

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Have a look at Taskr. It's basically like cron, but with a RESTful web interface. You can use it to schedule tasks to periodically connect to your Rails app and trigger arbitrary code (via the Taskr4rails plugin). It's meant to fit nicely into a system built around RESTful services, plus it can notify you if a task returns an error, fails to run, etc.

answered 2008-12-23T17:44:48.703

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