Blog (background jobs)
If you don’t already know, ’delayed_job’ is a database based asynchronously priority queue system extracted from Shopify.
I was seeking for a lightweight, easy to use solution for queueing tasks, ‘delayed_job’ fits the bill almost perfectly. ;)
One thing we needed to do for a Rails 2 project at Envato, was to queue the tasks and to run them one after another, at a set interval. 'delayed_job’ unfortunately doesn’t come with this feature.
So, instead of searching for more complicated solutions o...