Question

I am using eFax to send faxes from my Rails 3.1 app and am wondering what the best way to monitor the status of each fax is. EFax allows you to post a request with an id to find its status and I would like to do this every minute until the fax status is either successful or failed. I am considering creating cron jobs for each fax and then canceling the cron job after success or failure. Or a better solution may be some sort of periodic job server? Does anyone have any experience with something like this or have any suggestions?

Answer 1

The easy solution is to create a rake task in your application that finds the fax tasks you need to check and then updates them. Stick it in a cron job and your good to do. Check out whenever for configuring the cron jobs for you.

I would like to suggest a nice job scheduling system but I have been looking for on to use in Rails for several years.