Background Jobs with DJ on Heroku

Yes - I actually was trying to work through the stuff above and it didn't quite 'click'. I'm also looking at 'other' frameworks that achieve the same thing...

Thanks for the update tho!

For sub-hour scheduled or recurring tasks, most users prefer a scheduled background task with DJ, rather than old-school cron. There are a bunch of ways to do this, for example:

   Delayed::Job.enqueue(work, 0, Time.now + 5.minutes)

Docs: http://docs.heroku.com/delayed-job

You could have a cheapo server be the "timekeeper" that sends a web request every minute to a heroku app which in turn does whatever you need.