Best way to run a delayed job in browser

Question

I have to develop an API which does some map reduce jobs in the background and then return the results. Its a sinatra application with a Riak No-sql database. The issue is that the job takes around 5-10 minutes to run. And the request times out in that amount of time. What can be the best ways to run such kind of jobs in the background?

Answer 1

Something like DelayedJob with a layer of something like Redis over the top (to keep track of job state), that is accessed by a unique route (your Sinatra API). Then have a different page (the web page for browser clients) that calls the API via AJAX, polling it periodically.

Answer 2

you can use the operation system scheduler

windows task scheduler