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I am attempting to create a web-based game in Ruby on Rails. I have a model named ‘Game’, which has a datetime in the database entry that corresponds to a time that I would like the server to call the Game model’s update_game function. Depending on the game’s settings, this could be every 30 seconds to every 12 hours.
Ruby on Rails only seems to work when it receives an HTTP request; is there a slick way to get my game to update on a periodic basis independent of HTTP requests?
I’d look into delayed_job for this. When the game starts, you can create a delayed_job for the first update, and every run after that can add a new job at the correct interval until it’s done.
I’d do lots of testing though 😉 – you don’t want to let the jobs get away from you.