Setting up Background Job (BJ) Properly

June 23rd, 2008

I dealt with a customer today who was a bit miffed that his Background Jobtasks were taking a while to kick off after the Rails app submitted them to the queue.

I dug a little deeper into the problem - he was using our standard configuration, moving control of the runner out to cron instead of being controlled from within the app itself.

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Bj.config["production.no_tickle"] = true

and then a cronjob such as

*/2 * * * * bj run --forever --rails_env=production --rails_root=/data/user/current

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