Lincoln Stoll lstoll

Jobs with the Play! Framework and Heroku

First thing, create a job that runs your task. Don't set a timer or anything on it, we will trigger it manually.

You will need to add two things to your app. First is an endpoint that uses authorisation (for your security) to trigger the job in the background. Something like this will do it:

public class JobEndpoint extends Controller{ 
    public static void runTheJob(){ 
        if( "jobuser".equals(request.username) && "jobpass".equals(request.password) ){

new WhateverYourJobClassIs().now();

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby

	require 'rubygems'
	require 'thread'
	require 'fog'

	# Ensure a bucket is specified
	if ARGV.count < 4
	raise "Specify a key, secret, bucket and output dir (eg ./downloader.rb key secret my-bucket '~/out')"
	return

	# On 10.7.3


	/usr/bin/gem environment
	RubyGems Environment:
	- RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.6
	- RUBY VERSION: 1.8.7 (2010-01-10 patchlevel 249) [universal-darwin11.0]
	- INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8
	- RUBY EXECUTABLE: /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby
	- EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /usr/bin

	(require 'flymake)

	(defun flymake-go-init ()
	(let* ((temp-file (flymake-init-create-temp-buffer-copy
	'flymake-create-temp-inplace))
	(local-file (file-relative-name
	temp-file
	(file-name-directory buffer-file-name))))
	(list "go" (list "build" "-o" "/dev/null" temp-file))))

	$ clj
	Clojure 1.3.0
	user=> (defn fun "Docstring" [] ())
	#'user/fun
	user=> (meta (var fun))
	{:arglists ([]), :ns #<Namespace user>, :name fun, :doc "Docstring", :line 4, :file "NO_SOURCE_PATH"}
	user=>

	#!/bin/bash
	PORT=5556
	DB=gsv
	if [ ! -d "db" ]; then
	sudo sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmall=65536
	sudo sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmax=16777216
	mkdir db
	initdb db
	postgres -D db -p $PORT &
	PGPID=$!

	import os
	import pymongo

	if os.environ['MONGOHQ_URL']:
	# Get a connection
	conn = pymongo.Connection(os.environ['MONGOHQ_URL'])

	# Get the database
	db = conn[urlparse(os.environ['MONGOHQ_URL']).path[1:]]
	else:

	<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
	http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
	<groupId>net.lstoll</groupId>
	<artifactId>nullpom</artifactId>
	<packaging>jar</packaging>
	<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
	<name>nullpom</name>

	require 'rubygems'
	require 'nokogiri'
	require 'mechanize'
	require 'logger'

	module BankBalance

	class NabFetcher

	def fetch(client_number, password)

	source :rubygems

	gem "aws-s3", :require => 'aws/s3'