Getting Started

1. Setup your Iron.io Credentials and Project ID

If you haven't already, read this page to set up your credentials: http://dev.iron.io/articles/configuration/

To choose a specific project for this, add an iron.json file in this directory with:

{
    "project_id": "MY_IRON_PROJECT_ID"
}

Or set the IRON_PROJECT_ID environment variable.

Or if you're using the IronMQ Heroku add-on, you don't need to do either of those.

2. Start the app

Clone this github repository then start up the app with:

rails s

3. Start a DJ process

rake jobs:work

4. Surf to localhost:3000

And watch the worker output on the console.

What's Going On?

Take a look at WelcomeController.index and User model to see what's going on. In WelcomeController.index it's calling:

user = User.new
user.delay.background_stuff(WelcomeController.increment)

So User.background_stuff is being called in the background.