polling with delayed_job

Question

I have a process which takes generally a few seconds to complete so I\'m trying to use delayed_job to handle it asynchronously. The job itself works fine, my question is ho

Answer 1

I'd suggest that if it's important to get notification that the job has completed, then write a custom job object and queue that rather than relying upon the default job that gets queued when you call Available.delay.dosomething. Create an object something like:

class DoSomethingAvailableJob

  attr_accessor options

  def initialize(options = {})
    @options = options
  end

  def perform
    Available.dosomething(@options)
    # Do some sort of notification here
    # ...
  end
end

and enqueue it with:

Delayed::Job.enqueue DoSomethingAvailableJob.new(:var => 1234)