Articles tagged job-queue:

A Multithreaded Job Queue For Ruby (on Rails)

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Posted 557 days ago.

I have a Ruby on Rails application with a rapidly growing database of currently 50,000 jobs per day to be executed. Each jobs fetches data over the internet and takes about 1-10 seconds to execute. These tasks are scheduled for specific times and should be executed with as little delay as possible. Read more ... (1380 words) 3 Comments.