How can I run a continuous background job with Sidekiq?

Question

I have been using Sidekiq successfully to run background jobs that are initiated by user actions in a Rails 3.2 application. My particular application involves sending and recei

Answer 1

Ruby multithreading is just for that. Spawn a thread in your initializers folder:

Thread.new do

  loop do

    for user in User.active
      data = user.get_data
      next if data.blank?

      UserDataWorker.perform_async(user.id)
    end

    sleep 1

  end
end

If your checks don't need much resources, should be allright.