Sidekiq Example
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This example 'app' (it isn't really an app!) was built to go with a talk at the
Lyon.rb meetup. The slides from that talk are on slideshare. 
http://www.slideshare.net/KurtSussman/lyonrb-12feb2014sidekiq

Web apps should do high-resource tasks in the background, for such resources as
memory, CPU, disk I/O, and network I/O. Some user requests may result in
queueing a background task, such as

* sending email
* sending SMS
* anything involving a call to an external API
* long database queries
* generating formatted reports

There may also be recurring tasks like daily reports, purging old or inactive
records from the database, or monthly billing. Those can be set up as cron
jobs, but that requires updating yet another system when the intervals change,
or another task needs to be added.

This project accepts an email address and sends an email. We would
like to schedule a followup email, if possible. Another page allows takes a URL
and gets the page, storing the content in a text field. There is no background
processing in the master branch, and sidekiq is used in the 'sidekiq' branch.

You can see the difference between the two branches with 

$ git diff master sidekiq

The doc/links.txt file contains a list of links to articles about installing,
using, and testing sidekiq in Rails apps.

Please send pull requests for new branches using other background processing
frameworks.

License: MIT