Are rake tasks suitable for long running processes in production?

Question

I'm planing in using a rake task to develop a long running background process for my rails application. Are rake tasks appropriate for this kind of processes? Ideally, I would like wrap it inside a linux daemon to be able to start and end the process easily.

If it's not the best option, which are the alternatives? I'm trying to avoid using a cron-based solution to avoid having to worry about the schedule and the posibility of having diferent running instances of the same process overlapping between them.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can try delayed job with this extension.

class MyJob

  include Delayed::ScheduledJob

  run_every 1.day

  def display_name
    "MyJob"
  end

  def perform
    # code to run ...
  end
end

Or manually enqueue another job with Time.now + 5.minutes for example after current job is finished inside perform method.