TCP Socket communication between processes on Heroku worker dyno

Question

I\'d like to know how to communicate between processes on a Heroku worker dyno.

We want a Resque worker to read off a queue and send the data to another process runn

Answer 1

@makdad, is the "3rd party software" written in Ruby? If so, I would run it with a monkey patch which fakes out TCPSocket or whatever class it is using to access the TCP socket. Put the monkey patch in a file of its own, which will only be required by the Ruby process which is running the 3rd party software. The monkey patch could even read data directly from the queue, and make TCPSocket behave as if that data had been received.

Yes, it's not very elegant, and I'm sure there may be a better way to do it, but when are you trying to get a job done (not spend days doing research), sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and do something which is ugly, but works. Whatever solution you choose, make sure to document it for those who work on the project later.