Question

I have the following configuration for my resque system (no rails just Sinatra base) where I have bunch of recurring jobs scheduled from a yml file

resque (1.23.0)
resque-scheduler (2.0.0)
resque-status (0.4.0)

The recurring schedule appears on the ‘Schedule’ tab and when I click on a ‘Queue Now’ button the status also appears on the ‘Statuses’ tab, the problem is that when the recurring jobs automatically run, they don’t appear on the ‘Statuses’ tab.. my resque_schedule.yml looks something like this

email_notifier:
  every: 5m
  custom_job_class: Process_Notification_Emails
  queue: email_notifier
  args: 
  description: "Process mail notifications"

Note: These scheduled jobs are actually running every 5 minutes and are behaving as expected,the only issue I’m having is that they don’t appear on the ‘Statuses’ tab unless I manually enqueue them

Any ideas what am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

Support for resque-status (and other custom jobs)

Some Resque extensions like resque-status use custom job classes with
a slightly different API signature. Resque-scheduler isn’t trying to
support all existing and future custom job classes, instead it
supports a schedule flag so you can extend your custom class and make
it support scheduled job.

Let’s pretend we have a JobWithStatus class called FakeLeaderboard

class FakeLeaderboard < Resque::JobWithStatus
  def perform
    # do something and keep track of the status
  end
end

And then a schedule:

create_fake_leaderboards:
  cron: "30 6 * * 1"
  queue: scoring
  custom_job_class: FakeLeaderboard
  args:
  rails_env: demo
  description: "This job will auto-create leaderboards for our online demo and the status will update as the worker makes progress"

If your extension doesn’t support scheduled job, you would need to
extend the custom job class to support the #scheduled method:

module Resque
  class JobWithStatus
    # Wrapper API to forward a Resque::Job creation API call into
    # a JobWithStatus call.
    def self.scheduled(queue, klass, *args)
      create(*args)
    end
  end
end

https://github.com/bvandenbos/resque-scheduler#support-for-resque-status-and-other-custom-jobs