Best practice for Rails App to run a long task in the background?

Question

I have a Rails application that unfortunately after a request to a controller, has to do some crunching that takes awhile. What are the best practices in Rails for providin

Answer 1

I use Background Job (http://codeforpeople.rubyforge.org/svn/bj/trunk/README) to schedule tasks. I am building a small administration site that allows Site Admins to run all sorts of things you and I would run from the command line from a nice web interface.