Running Cron Tasks on Heroku

Question

I\'ve seen that Heroku charges $15/mo to run Delayed Job, and $3/mo to run cron tasks daily. Is it possible to skip that entirely and run my own cron tasks manually? Or ar

Answer 1

If you want to have scheduled jobs you can also use http://guardiano.getpeople.in that is a free service (for 10 jobs) for job scheduling.

You just need to setup an HTTP endpoint in your application to recieve event notifications on POST or GET and you can also set some additional params to prevent not authorized actions.

So you set a job in Guardiano that will cal http://yourapp.com/youraction and leave "minutes" blank if you want you action to run once in the future or set minutes to what you want to run your action every X minutes. In that way you only have to create your endpoint for you app and when this EP is called you execute something.

So your app can sleep and you don't need to spend money and time setting up jobs and taking care that they are working properly.

IMHO if you need something fast for an MVP or you need to setup a lot of jobs for different apps than a free service like that where you can actually outsource cronjobs is quite good.

There was aslo an Heroku Addon called Temporize to do that but I'm not sure is still alive and working