How should I run delayed_job in production environment?

Question

I have no problems with running it in development mode via rake jobs:work. However, I'm somehow unable to figure out how to use it in production. I'm using Capistrano for deployment.

Thanks for any advice!

Answer 1

My first thought will be to add a after deploy task in capistrano to run the rake jobs:work task. you might need to check if the process is already running and restart it.

Answer 2

See this answer. In a nutshell, use the Collective Idea fork of delayed_job. It contains a script called delayed_job that can be used.

Answer 3

If you are running it via rake then couldn't you just run however often you wanted via cron? The whenever gem is a great interface to this from ruby.