Delayed_job (or DJ) encapsulates the common pattern of asynchronously executing longer tasks in the background.
This is a direct port of Delayed::Job.
Check out the code to your library directory
cd libraries
git clone [email protected]:cgarvis/li3_delayed_job.git
Include the library in your /app/config/bootstrap/libraries.php
Libraries::add('li3_delayed_job');
Jobs are simple objects with a method called perform. Any object which responds to perform can be stuffed into the jobs collection. Job objects are serialized to yaml so that they can later be resurrected by the job runner.
You can invoke li3 jobs work which will start working off jobs. You can cancel the task with CTRL-C
Keep in mind that each worker will check the database at least every 5 seconds.
You can invoke li3 jobs clear to delete all jobs in the queue