rails periodic task

Question

I have a ruby on rails app in which I\'m trying to find a way to run some code every few seconds.

I\'ve found lots of info and ideas using cron, or cron-like implementat

Answer 1

You can either write you own method, something like

class MyWorker
  def self.work
    #do you work
    sleep 15
  end
end

run it with rails runner MyWorker.work There will be a separate process running in the background

Or you can use something like Resque, but that's a different approach. It works like that: something adds a task to the queue, meanwhile a worker is fetching whatever job it is in the queue, and tries to finish it.

So that depends on your own need.