Running delayed jobs on Heroku for free
Is it possible to run delayed jobs on Heroku for free? I'm trying to use delayed_job_active_record on Heroku. However, it requires a worker dyno and it would cost money if I turned this dyno on for full time. I thought using Unicorn and making its workers run delayed jobs instead of the Heroku worker, would cost nothing, while successfully running all the jobs. However, Unicorn workers do not seem to start "working" automatically. I have the following in my Procfile . web: bundle exec unicorn -p $PORT -c ./config/unicorn.rb worker: bundle exec rake jobs:work and the following in my unicorn.rb