Quickly add delayed job to your rails app

In some of my rails app I need to have delayed/background jobs as a consequence of a controller's action call

Below quick instructions on how to add delayed jobs to any rails app:


1- add the following to Gemfile

gem 'delayed_job'
gem 'delayed_job_active_record'
gem 'daemons'

2- execute bundle install

3- create the delayed jobs tables

rails generate delayed_job:active_record

4- migrate the DB

rake db:migrate

5- in your rails root create a directory called jobs

6- add the following lines in config/application.rb

config.autoload_paths += %W(#{config.root}/jobs) #autoload delayed_jobs job
Delayed::Worker.destroy_failed_jobs = false
Delayed::Worker.sleep_delay = 60
Delayed::Worker.read_ahead = 5 #default value

7- in the jobs directory creare delayed_task.rb

DelayedTask = Struct.new(:x, :y) do

def task_worker
    begin
        res = self.x + self.y
        Rails.logger.info "Task calculating x + y = " + res.to_s
   end
end

def perform
    task_worker
end
end

8- add somewhere in your controller

Delayed::Job.enqueue(DelayedTask.new(2,3), {:priority => 0, :run_at =>  Time.now + 10.seconds})

9- start the jobs worker

rake jobs:work

or

bin/delayed_job start

10- start your raisl app and when your controller method will be called a new delayed job (DelayedTask) will be schedule and execute at the proper time