Question

I have a situation where I need to have delayed_job use a custom backend on a separate DB/table.

So essentially force it to use a separate schema vs. the one my app primarily uses.

Any ideas on how to do this? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

you could make some of your models connect to a different database and use different tables.

Specify the configurations for your new db in the database.yml

delayed_jobs_db_connection:
  adapter: mysql # or any other adapter
  database: delayed_jobs_db
  username: root
  password:
  host: localhost

And in the model one would establish the connection to this database using establish_connection. You could also specify all the config directly in the model, keeping it in a config is just a better way. Hope this helps.