SolidQueue + Cron? There's a Better Way

A few months ago I showed how to schedule recurring rake tasks with Clock. A few of my projects have started using SolidQueue more extensively, including it’s support for recurring jobs.

Rake tasks could be run hourly with Clock by using the following:

using RubyClock::DSL

cron '0 * * * *' do
  rake 'my_rake_task'
end

With SolidQueue, we can schedule in a similar way:

production:
	my_task:
		class: MyJobClass
		schedule: "0 * * * *"

The my_task key uniquely identifies the task and is how SolidQueue tracks job completing and scheduling. You can see more documentation in the SolidQueue readme.