Posts tagged worker

Oct04

Peons: A simple fail-safe queue

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Peons:

n. Hard working dependable slaves, with a keen attention to mining your gold.

If you have been doing a lot of web apps lately, chances are that you have noticed the massive attention towards background processing queues. Peons is just a simple, yet robust attempt, to solve the same problem, albeit with less code.

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Jul22

Dtach is the way

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If you have a worker that doesn't stop (looping endlessly and waiting for some queue to have a job), you might want to have the ability to put this worker in the background for the following reasons:

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Apr14

uninitialized constant Delayed::Job

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Just a quick shout out for those having a problem with the latest DelayedJob, this is a quick fix!