How to use Workling in Rails to increase the speed of the request processing

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In ruby on rails application, if your request is taking too much time to process, you can make some part of the code to run in background.

For example,

In my application , I am sending notifications to owner,watch listers and trackers of a post, if there is any activity on the post. So when someone comments on the post, people will be getting notifications. I am using delayed jobs to generate notifications. But the problem here is inserts into delayed jobs. Whenever I comment on a post, all the inserts into the delayed job table takes long time, hence the response is coming too late.

My CommentsController

class CommentsController < ApplicationController

  def comment
   @comment = Comment.new(params[:comment])
   @comment.save
   @comment.send_messages
  end
end

To make the inserts into delayed jobs in the background, I used Workling. Implementing Workling is very simple.

1. Install the Workling plugin

script/plugin install git://github.com/purzelrakete/workling.git

2. Create the…

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