How do I keep sidekiq always up on Heroku?

Question

Whenever I run heroku run bundle exec sidekiq, I see all my background jobs being done, however, I want them to be able to go without me needing to be there. When I exit out of that terminal tab, sidekiq stops working. How would I mitigate that?

Also, I've read something about procfiles and increasing workers. I don't know what procfiles are and I don't know how to increase workers either.

Basically, I'm a newbie trying to get sidekiq set up to run on Heroku for my Rails app. I want it to be running at all times.

Answer 1

Create a file named ./Procfile with the following in it:

web: bundle exec rails server -p $PORT
worker: bundle exec sidekiq

• sidekiq on Heroku
• more on Procfiles
• foreman gem