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How to run rake task as a worker process on Heroku?

Let assume that I have scaled Heroku application to 1 worker process, but how to specify that the rake task with particular name should run as a worker process?

Solution

  • Make a Procfile in your project, and put the rake task within it like so

    worker: bundle exec rake my:cool:rake_task

    More info here: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/procfile

    UPDATE (April 2014):

    If you want to schedule your rake task like a cron job you could use the Heroku Scheduler

    Details are here: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/scheduler