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How to run background jobs? (lemmy.world)
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Is there any library for the queueing mechanism?

What's used by the most - Cron? But a task or rather script executed by Cron won't access to the context of an application. Meaning, a task will have be an independent unit. Whereas I want is a library to use inside a project such that it'll have access to everything.

Anything similar to Sidekiq exist in Rust?

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[โ€“] vest@mastodon.online 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@kevincox How do you stop the job? Do you use channels like in Go?

[โ€“] kevincox@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It depends. Sometimes you can just put an exit call at the end of main to kill the thread. If you want to attempt graceful shutdown then usually I just use a boolean shutdown flag. Then the loop becomes while !shutdown.get() {