Ruby on Rails: How to run things in the background?

Question

When a new resource is created and it needs to do some lengthy processing before the resource is ready, how do I send that processing away into the

Answer 1

You should definitely check out the following Railscasts:

• http://railscasts.com/episodes/127-rake-in-background
• http://railscasts.com/episodes/128-starling-and-workling
• http://railscasts.com/episodes/129-custom-daemon
• http://railscasts.com/episodes/366-sidekiq

They explain how to run background processes in Rails in every possible way (with or without a queue ...)