[Backgroundrb-devel] Best way to organize workers

[hemant]

On Feb 5, 2008 12:37 AM, Scott Ward <scott at shefield.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a few tasks that run every few minutes.  They definitely need their
> own worker.
>
> However, other tasks run once per day or even once per week.  Right now I am
> creating a new worker for each of these tasks, but I wonder if that's
> unnecessary for tasks that I know will never execute at the same time.  They
> don't need to run concurrently.
>
> Basically, I am wondering if I should combine a bunch of these periodic,
> non-overlapping tasks into one worker called "general_maintenance_worker" or
> something like that.  For each task, I could create a different method and
> schedule them as needed in backgroundrb.yml.
>
> That should work, but is it "right"?  What's the "best practice" is in this
> situation?


Yup, if your tasks are non-overlapping then you can put them in the
same worker and through backgroundrb.yml
you can configure them to run at different intervals.


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