Posted: February 14th, 2010 | Author: monolith | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Background, email, workling | No Comments »
In a previous post I showed how to set up Starling and Workling for background processing. There, Starling and Workling were really used by a background process to send out scheduled email updates. Now, I want to use them for another type of event, like letting those who posted jobs on Commune2.com know immediately when someone applies for one of their jobs. So this will be a non-scheduled event that triggers a real time email in the background.
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Posted: February 7th, 2010 | Author: monolith | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: workling | No Comments »
I just spent an hour trying to debug a new Workling worker I just added to my application. As far as I could tell there was nothing wrong with the code, everything SHOULD have been working… but nothing was happening… my new worker was not working! Silly silly silly.
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Posted: January 10th, 2010 | Author: monolith | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Background, Cron, God, Queuing, Rails, RoR, Starling, Whenever | 1 Comment »
One of the problems with a new website is getting people to comeback to check for new content. So I wanted to create an email reminder. So that is what I’ll cover in this post… a background process that once in a while sends an email, reminding people to come back for some new content.
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