Best Practices: Should the worker/consumer run in a separated instance of the producer/application?

[Mathieu Tan]

Hi there,

Thanks for this awesome gem, I am trying to implements queue_classic and I would like to have some advice on design best practices.

I have a sinatra application which will feed the queue. Everythings is working fine.

My question is where should I run the worker? Knowing that I have a rake task which will have the worker looping indefinitely to retrieve items of the queue.

Should it be on the same server? Or should I have a dedicated server running this rake task. If the worker is in a separated instance of the producer can I assume that the queue will notify my worker properly?

 Thanks in advance and keep up the good work!

Mathieu