delayed job for Rails on Windows?

Question

I start developing a site using Rails 3.x and I need to run multiple jobs parallel. I am locked in Windows for now.

I was able to make delayed job (collectiveidea) work using "rake jobs:work" but it seems like it runs jobs 1 at a time. I tried to run "ruby script\delayed_job" but there is no "fork" under Windows.

Does delayed_job can run parallel under Win? Do I have any other options besides delayed_job?

Thanks.

Answer 1

To start multiple workers, I recommend starting multiple command prompts (or similar) and spawning a worker in each window. Additionally you can spawn it as a process in the same cmd shell and just spawn several of the processes.

Installing as a process isn't that hard, but I don't have a windows box to validate how to do this.