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

Ideally there is no straight way to get this free, but you would find lots of workaround one can make to enjoy free background jobs. One of which is http://nofail.de/2011/07/heroku-cedar-background-jobs-for-free/

Also if you plan to use resque which is an excellent choice for background jobs you would need redis which comes free with nano version => https://addons.heroku.com/redistogo. https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/queuing-ruby-resque

Simple solution is to buy a one dyno for the worker, whereas your web dyno would be free.

Let me if you need more help.

Thanks