Rails + Devise + delayed_job?

Question

I have a Rails 3 App using Devise on Heroku. Problem is I\'m sending emails with Sendgrid and email delivery is slow, it makes the app hang. So I\'m interested in using dela

Answer 1

I have generally found it best to avoid any and all background-job task managers available for Ruby and Rails, period. They suck.

Instead, I use crontab which is an ancient program and very good at its job. Just make a script to do your dirty work every so often and tell crontab to run it at the right times using rails runner. This keeps those pesky long-running tasks outside the run-time of the rest of your Rails application, but you still have access to the database and the whole Rails stack if you want/need it.