Rails pool of background jobs

Question

I'm writting webtool using Ruby+Rails. I decided to ask about already existing solution before inventing mine.

Task: I need a pool of background jobs, that will run periodicaly (user sets his interval). There are plenty solutions like Resque or Sidekiq, but they provide "one-time" jobs. User can create new task, that gets into "pool".

Are there any solutions for this?

Answer 1

One simple solution might be to use cron to enqueue background jobs.

Another option might be to use an extension to Sidekiq that handles periodical jobs: sidekiq-scheduler for example.