README.md

Prune Resque Workers

There is an issue related to running Resque on Heroku and Resque's ability to clean it's state information for workers. This is mostly a cosmetic issue however we got to a point where the Resque Dashboard would timeout because it was trying to display hundreds of workers it thought were sitll running.

This is a heavy handed approach to cleaning up. We are finding any worker that was stared longer than a day ago and manually calling the unregister method. Be advised this will throw DirtyExit errors.

prune_abandoned_resque_workers.rb

# heroku run console -a appname

days_ago = 1

Resque.workers.select { |w| Date.parse(w.started) < (Date.today - days_ago) }.each { |w| w.unregister_worker }