Ruby on Rails Delayed Job Local Wont Run

Question

I\'m working with delayed job for active record gem https://github.com/collectiveidea/delayed_job I\'m trying to set up a job to run five minutes after an event occurs in m

Answer 1

I think you have to launch the background workers locally using foreman. The following worked on my Mac.

From Heroku docs:

You then need to tell your application to process jobs put into your job queue, you can do that by adding this to your Procfile:

worker:  bundle exec rake jobs:work

Now when you start your application using Foreman it will start processing your job queue.

foreman start

Having said all that, unless you are deploying on a Mac, it doesn't really matter if they run locally. (I noticed this after I got it working.) It only matters if it works on your servers. If you are deploying on Heroku, then Delayed Job works well.

Reference:

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/delayed-job
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/procfile