Questions tagged [hirefire]
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Scale down specific Heroku worker dynos?
I'm building a web application which provides as a core feature the ability for users to upload large images and have them processed. The processing takes roughly 3 minutes to complete, and I thought Heroku would be an ideal platform for being able…

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Delayed_job vs. Appoxy SimpleWorker
I was about to start getting delayed_job up and running on my app when I found Appoxy SimpleWorker on Heroku.
Appoxy says it's massively parallel and that it scales workers up and down to minimize costs. However, it seems to me that with HireFire,…

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How can I tell how many worker dynos I'm using on Heroku?
I'm using HireFireApp to autoscale my web and worker dynos on Heroku. However, when I navigate to the Resque app on my application it says
"0 of 46 Workers Working"
Does this mean that I'm using 46 worker dynos???
Update:
Running heroku ps…

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Getting hirefire to work with Rails 3.1.3, DJ 3.0.0, Heroku Cedar Stack
I'm trying to get hirefire to work with Heroku Cedar Stack. I tried using this patch, but that doesn't seem to help either. Workers are not getting spun up at all. Anybody here has a solution that works?

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How to get working with hirefire for delayed_job in rails 3 in development?
I am developing an app with rails 3 using delayed_jobs. I'm using Hirefire to scale up and down workers as and when needed. How can I get hirefire working in my development environment, to test it is working as it is intended to.
Then how should I…

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Translate from routes.rb Ruby to urls.py Django
I need to modify the file urls.py with a static url.
The next line is coded in Ruby Lang in routes.rb
match "/hirefire/#{ENV["HIREFIRE_TOKEN"]}/info" => "hire_fire#info"
I don't know how to code the same line in urls.py Django.
Please I need your…

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HireFire makes my Django app loose jobs in queue, using Redis and Celery for tasks
I'm sure I'm not the only person using HireFire to manage worker dynos.
My workers send emails using Celery tasks and Redis.
When HireFire is off, everything works great. I set the Dynos for Celery and CeleryBeat to 1 and the tasks all succeed.
When…

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jobs is not firing on heroku using hirefire
i'm using gem "delayed_job_active_record" with hire fire on heroku to run jobs in background.i have also set heroku envirnoment variable using my heroku account. My sequence in gem file is below
gem 'delayed_job_active_record'
gem 'daemons'
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Hirefire isn't working with Heroku/Delayed Job/Mongoid - latest versions
I am using the hirefire beta to manage my mongoid-based DJ queue workers - adding and removing dynos as the queue depth changes.
The problem is that all I get is the error:
2013-01-27T23:07:14+00:00 app[web.1]: Started GET…

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Reading the Heroku dyno formation with the CLI
We are using HireFire to manage multiple DelayedJob queues, with queues associated with different Procfile entries that might vary by application.
For 95% of the day some of the dyno types in the formation are scaled to 0. (Basically, overnight…

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Is it possible scale a specific Heroku Worker?
I'm currently trying to develop an application that relies heavily on heroku workers (executing a NodeJS script, no choice in switching to Ruby/Rails here) handling long running (1 - 168 hour) background jobs. My issue is that certain jobs may…

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Hirefire not run delayed jobs
i'm using delayed job active record with hirefire gem to mange workers. But on heroku it seems like hirefire not running jobs and when i run this command below
heroku run rake jobs:work --app gentle-gorge-9319
then it runs job. But hirefire…

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HireFire on Heroku Cedar no getting triggered?
I've upgraded an app from 3.2/1.8.7/Bamboo to 3.2/1.9.2/Cedar. Everything seems to be working except HireFire is not getting triggered properly.
Things seem to go smoothly when I run
bundle exec rake jobs:work
manually, but I can't for the life of…

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HireFire error when moving from bamboo to cedar on Heroku: Connection Refused
I'm migrating an app from 3.0/1.8.7/bamboo to 3.2/1.9.2/cedar. I'm getting the following error, which is preventing my HireFire to run my DelayedJobs.
Any idea what is wrong here?
-----> Preparing app for Rails asset pipeline
Running: rake…

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