HireFire - The Heroku Worker Manager

Very handy. Was looking at using <a href="http://www.simpleworker.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.simpleworker.com/</a> as an alternative to the uncost effective Heroku DJ's but hopefully HireFire will sway me back to using Heroku.

Nice work, glad to see heroku API gems getting some love.<p>I wrote a similar gem back in January and have had good luck with it: <a href="https://github.com/freerobby/middle_management" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/freerobby/middle_management</a><p>It's fully configurable via environment variables, so you can make changes without redeploying. It also lets you specify a minimum number of workers (even if there are zero jobs) so that you don't have to wait for workers to spin up if you don't want to.

Looks great. Hoping to see resque support on it soon.<p>One thing this really shows the need for is a real api on heroku. Having to hardcode your username/pass into env variables is pretty ghetto. Hopefully heroku devs are watching and listening. Oauth plz??

For the low-traffic scenario there's also an older, much simpler solution: <a href="https://github.com/mtravers/cheepnis" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mtravers/cheepnis</a>

I was looking for something like this months ago. Thanks for building, and I'm looking forward to (at least trying to) contribute!

Looks extremely cool. Can't wait to kick the tires.

Does anyone know of gems like this that will work on standard VPS servers? I'm launching something that completely depends on Delayed Job for processing data and would love an interface to manage queues and number of workers spun up at a given time. Also, visually watching the queue (a la resque) would be amazing.<p>The best I've found so far is: <a href="http://trevorturk.com/2011/01/21/delayed_job_admin-a-simple-admin-interface-for-delayedjob/" rel="nofollow">http://trevorturk.com/2011/01/21/delayed_job_admin-a-simple-...</a>