I have a rails 3.2.13 application on OPENSHIFT. I need the best way to manage background jobs, for example daily, weekly or monthly search alerts (when users can subscribe to the search they made and get email alerts with new products). I have installed REDIS cartridge according to these instructions. There are OPENSHIFT cartridges available for Resque and Sidekiq, but installation commands do not work.
I managed to install Resque as a gem according to these instructions and it is working when I start it with the rake command:
RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake resque:work QUEUE='*'
But the worker is stopped as soon as I close command line tool. When I use action-hooks for the same rake task, it works only for some period of time and then I have to restart the worker again. How can I start a worker only once on production?
I think you would be best off creating rake tasks for what you need done and then using cron to fire them off when you need them to run.