Melinis¶ ↑

Melinis is library for managing background jobs like Rake tasks, cron jobs etc. that do some kind of batch processing.

Installation¶ ↑

To install Melinis, add it to your Gemfile

gem 'melinis', github: 'urbanladder/melinis'

In your rails application, run

db:migrate

Usage¶ ↑

Subclass Melinis::Task & override the following methods:

1. prepare
2. execute
3. execution_failure
4. wrapup

class MyTask < Melinis::Task
  def initialize
    super('MyTask', {
      :description => 'Details here',
      :file_path => './my_task.rb',
      :command => '',
      :individual_retries_limit => 0,
      :bulk_retries_limit => 0
    })
    // Other custom initialization here
  end

  def prepare
    data = last_run.data
    // Use 'data' to figure out what needs to be done in this run.

    // Return an array of items to be processed
    10.times.map { 10 * Random.rand(11) }
  end

  def execute(unit)
    // Each item in the array returned by `prepare` is passed as a parameter
    // to the `execute` method.

    1000 / unit
  end

  def execution_failure(unit)
    {:id => unit}
  end

  def wrapup
    {}
  end
end

Example¶ ↑

Rake Task:¶ ↑

task :test_task => :environment do |task|
  mt = MyTask.new.run
end