Which background process used for continous fetching of data from Twitter through ruby on rails application

Question

My application need continous fetching of data from Twitter. I used twitter gem to access Twitter API. Have used #rufus-scheduler to hit the Twitter API after every half an hour, but it is not working, as some time it is blocked by the Twitter API for increasing limit.

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:55

I have already answered to a similar question here Background task

Basically, if you want to periodically fetch something on the Twitter API, you can use a cron job, but if you want to do it in real time, consider using a background job.

Example

while true
  if thereIsSomethingToDo
     # Do something here...
  else
     sleep 60 # Could be + or -
  end 
end

There is different ways to manage background jobs. Here is one:

Wrap your code in a rake task
Run this rake task from a process monitor like Monit or God

Which background process used for continous fetching of data from Twitter through ruby on rails application

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