Clojure Heroic Dyno Work Queue

Question

Is it possible to have a job queue for the Clojure webapp on Heroku? I see that you can do deferred tasks and use celery for Rails and Django, is there something similar for Clojure?

Answer 1

IronMQ is available on Heroku, and there is a Clojure library that allows you to work with it:

https://github.com/iron-io/iron_mq_clojure

(I notice that there is a problem / function where, if you pass something like a message string to the Iron MQ Clojure library, it will save an empty string. Everything is like Clojure read forms.)

Answer 2

I don’t know the specifics of job queue management in Clojure, but if you can start the process from the command line, you can run it on Heroku:

http://neilmiddleton.com/the-procfile-is-your-friend/