Start Your Engines! SimpleWorker is now an Engine Yard Partner

By Iron | September 9, 2011 |

Engine Yard has been hosting, deploying, managing and scaling Rails applications since before the “cloud” was cool and they’re still doing it, better than ever and with more “cloud” than ever. And as of this week, we’re happy and proud to be one of their Platform Services partners. https://www.engineyard.com/partner/simpleworker If you’re using Engine Yard and…

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Workers + NoSQL

By Iron | May 18, 2011 |

Chad Arimura will be speaking at the MongoSF conference next Tuesday, May 24th. He’ll be showing off the combination of SimpleWorker and MongoDB. As databases moves to more elastic and sharded NoSQL solutions like MongoDB, more and more processing moves from the data tier to the application tier. This shift makes background processing queues an…

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Autoload Rails Models for Super Easy Rails Integration

By Iron | January 3, 2011 |

SimpleWorker will now include all the models in your Rails app automatically so you don’t have to merge them manually. Just use them almost as if they were to be run locally and you’re good to go. eg; class MyWorker < SimpleWorker::Base attr_accessor :user_id def run # User model will automatically be available, so just…

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