rake task (including contents of old clock.rb file) to start/stop/restart clockwork.rb

clockwork.rake

namespace :clockwork do
  desc 'Start the clockwork daemon'
  task :start => :environment do
    pid = fork do
      $stdout.reopen("/dev/null")
      $stdout.sync = true
      $stderr.reopen($stdout)
      include Clockwork

      handler do |job_class|
        Resque.enqueue(job_class)
      end

      every(30.seconds, Gameday::FrequentUpdates)
      every(1.day, Gameday::DailyJob, :at => "01:30")
      run
    end
    Process.detach(pid)
    File.open("./tmp/clockwork_#{Rails.env}_pid.txt", "w") do |file|
      file << pid
    end
  end

  desc "Stop the clockwork daemon"
  task :stop => :environment do
    pid = File.read("./tmp/clockwork_#{Rails.env}_pid.txt").to_i
    Process.kill(1, pid)
  end

  desc 'restart the clockwork daemon'
  task :restart => [:stop, :start]
end

I really feel like this should come with clockwork.rb somehow.

Thanks for the gist!

Glad it was useful for you. :)