in reply to Equivalent for delayed_job?

I assume your environment is LINUX(UNIX Based) and if my assumption is good why not to write the PERL SCRIPT and use a cron job. It would be a bit easier I believe.

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Re^2: Equivalent for delayed_job?
by vsespb (Chaplain) on May 24, 2013 at 11:40 UTC
    Cron cannot compete with job servers.. It's a bit different thing.
      Correct, the granularity and complexity of managing these tasks as cron jobs would quickly get out of hand.
      But I believe cron can be used in conjunction with job server http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1035259