Running delayed jobs on Heroku for free

Question

Is it possible to run delayed jobs on Heroku for free?

I\'m trying to use delayed_job_active_record on Heroku. However, it requires a

Answer 1

Splitting the process like that can incur problems - your best bet is it not try and get it 'free' but use something like http://hirefireapp.com/ which will start up a worker when there are jobs to perform reducing the cost significantly rather than running a worker 24x7.

Also note, Heroku will only ever autostart a 'web' process for you, starting other named processes is a manual task.