Based on our record, delayed_job should be more popular than Posthook. It has been mentiond 4 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I did end up going with AWS EventBridge to trigger the events, it was not as bad to configure as it seemed at first, but still I am surprised that there isn't a simpler solution. I did find https://posthook.io/ but that actually seemed even more complex than EventBridge. Source: over 2 years ago
Posthook.io — Job Scheduling Service. Allows you to schedule requests for specific times. 500 scheduled requests/month free. - Source: dev.to / almost 3 years ago
So how do we trigger such a long-running process from a Rails request? The first option that comes to mind is a background job run by some of the queuing back-ends such as Sidekiq, Resque or DelayedJob, possibly governed by ActiveJob. While this would surely work, the problem with all these solutions is that they usually have a limited number of workers available on the server and we didn’t want to potentially... - Source: dev.to / about 2 years ago
Several gems support job queues and background processing in the Rails world — Delayed Job and Sidekiq being the two most popular ones. - Source: dev.to / about 2 years ago
Back in the day, before Sidekiq and such, we used Delayed Job https://github.com/collectiveidea/delayed_job. Source: over 2 years ago
There are a few of popular systems. A few need a database, such as Delayed::Job, while others prefer Redis, such as Resque and Sidekiq. - Source: dev.to / about 3 years ago
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