MemcacheDB Que system.
example for adding a runner to the que
que = MemcachedbQ.new(:notices) #uses the :notices que
que.add_runner(:notifier, :deliver_customer_order, order.id) #adds a runner
# in this case :notifier relates to an actionmailer class
# :deliver_customer_order is a method within that class
# and the order.id is the value passed along to that method.
# at this point the information should be in the memcachedb
# if for some reason adding the runner fails it should
# immediately run the class.method(value) combination
que.run
# que.run is used to fork a process to handle the specific :notices runner que
# it checks before forking if there is anything to run, or if a process
# is already running a forked que for notices
# also instead of using que.run, you can just run the rake task to handle all
# runners in the config file. the simplest way is to setup a cronjob to run
# every minute. At the most you will only have as many forked processes as
# there are ques
added option to repeat runners.
que.add_runner(:notifier, :deliver_customer_order, order.id, :repeats=>30)
:repeats is in seconds
must use :repeat_name for repeats
this will add a new runner just before running the existing job. If you originally set a time to run then it will add to that time with repeats. If no :run_time was set it will set a run time of Time.now when it runs for the first time.