Farm
"Farm out" background jobs by running them immediately as a one-off Heroku process.
Installation and Setup:
gem install farm
Set the environment variables API_KEY
and APP_NAME
to your Heroku API key and the name of your app on Heroku, respectively.
Rails >= 3.0:
The installation is finished.
Other Ruby apps:
Add the following line to your Rakefile:
load 'farm/tasks'
The Rakefile must also define a task called 'environment'. This task should load your application so that the farmed-out method can be executed in context.
Usage:
Foo. #=> Run directly
Foo.farm. #=> Run in background as one-off Heroku process.
For local development, set the environment variable FARM_ENV=local
. This will cause background tasks to be run as local rake tasks, rather than one-off Heroku processes.
Sincere thanks to https://github.com/collectiveidea/delayed_job from which I copied lots of code and functionality.