Minion task to access MyApp to reduce boilerplate for any standalone Minion tasks #mojo #perl

do_some_job.pl

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use Mojolicious::Lite;
use FindBin;
BEGIN { unshift @INC, "$FindBin::Bin/../lib" }
use MyApp;

# Load in MyApp so we can utilise the config and database connections without
# adding unnecessary boilerplate.
my $myapp = MyApp->new;

# Load minion using the config obtained above
plugin Minion => {Pg => $myapp->config->{jobs}->{minion}};

# Task to do some job
app->minion->add_task(
  do_some_job => sub {
    my ($job, $args) = @_;

    print "------\n" x 5;
    print "TRYING JOB";
    print "------\n" x 5;

    # Access the db from our loaded app
    my $company = $myapp->db->resultset('Company')->single({name => 'kwa'});

    $job->fail;
    $job->retry;
  }
);

app->start;