Yes .. thats a great advice. We use beanstalkd for asynchronous tasks (like send...

prateekdayal on March 9, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rails + MySQL scaling on a budget

Yes .. thats a great advice. We use beanstalkd for asynchronous tasks (like sending emails or updating twitter) and backgroundrb for jobs that need polling (re-encoding a mp3 file and showing a progress bar to the user)