Great article.
Background/deferred job processing has been immensely painful for us, and I have no idea what the accepted best job queue is. We're still stuck on backgroundrb, which is a nightmare. Nanite looks like overkill, and has too many deps.
Background/deferred job processing has been immensely painful for us, and I have no idea what the accepted best job queue is. We're still stuck on backgroundrb, which is a nightmare. Nanite looks like overkill, and has too many deps.
Tobi's deferred jobs also looked totally solid to me. That one's proven because it drives Shopify. We use his liquid plugin, which is also stellar.
That underlines a big issue with Rails dev even today -- its really hard to know what's good / what works, and what is just some weekend project for someone.
RabbitMQ is another option to consider in this area.
I'm eager to see if anyone else can recommend alternatives that they've had good experiences with.
>> myobject.very_slow_method
with
>> myobject.async :very_slow_method
and it's executed in background