Persumi - Level up your writing and blogging with AI Fred Wu ifredwu@gmail.com http://persumi.com/u/fredwu http://persumi.com/u/fredwu/tech/e/blog/t/queue 2026-05-16T04:46:42.542817Z <![CDATA[<p> If you don’t already know, ’<a href="http://github.com/collectiveidea/delayed_job">delayed_job</a>’ is a database based asynchronously priority queue system extracted from <a href="http://www.shopify.com/">Shopify</a>.</p> <p> I was seeking for a lightweight, easy to use solution for queueing tasks, ‘delayed<em>job’ fits the bill _almost</em> perfectly. ;)</p> <p> One thing we needed to do for a Rails 2 project at <a href="http://envato.com/">Envato</a>, 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.</p> <p> So, instead of searching for more complicated solutions or reinventing the wheels, I<a href="http://github.com/fredwu/delayed_job">made a couple of commits to my fork</a> to add this functionality as well as to fix some rails 3 compatibility issues.</p> <p> Now you can simply add the following line to your <code class="inline">config/initializers/delayed_job_config.rb</code> file to have the tasks run at 1 minute interval.</p> <pre><code class="ruby language-ruby">Delayed::Worker.run_interval = 60</code></pre> <p> A pull request has been issued, hopefully it’ll come as a standard feature soon. :)</p> ]]> 2010-03-25T11:53:00.000000Z Fred Wu ifredwu@gmail.com http://persumi.com/u/fredwu http://persumi.com/u/fredwu/tech/e/blog/p/rails-run-queued-tasks-using-delayed-job-now-with-intervals 2010-03-25T11:53:00.000000Z