Hawking

Background job queueing using TCPSocket. Inspired in the Stalker gem.

Queueing jobs

From anywhere in your app:

require "hawking"

hawking = Hawking::Queue.new

hawking.put("email.send", to: "joe@example.com")
hawking.put("post.cleanup", id: post.id)

Working jobs

In a standalone file, typically jobs.rb or worker.rb:

require "hawking"

Hawking::Job.put("email.send") do |data|
  Pony.send(to: data[:to], subject: 'Hello there')
end

Hawking::Job.put("post.cleanup") do |data|
  Post.find(data[:id]).cleanup
end

Running

Hawking:

$ gem install hawking

Now run a worker using the binary:

$ hawking jobs.rb
Working 2 jobs: [ email.send post.cleanup ]

Working send.email ({:to=>joe@example.com})
Working post.cleanup ({:id=>1})

Hawking will log to stdout as it starts working each job.

Running the tests

$ rake spec

Maintainer

• Rogério Zambon (http://rogerio.me)

Licence

(The MIT License)

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