Robinhood is a DSL for constructing iteration-based synchronous processes (aka can't be run as jobs) in a distributed manner.

In other words: Robs responsibilities from richer processes and gives them to the poor.

It leverages celluloid actors for each process and uses Redis as a locking mechanism to ensure the process is run in a single server.

Install the gem:

$ gem install robinhood

Define Robinhood in a file:

require 'robinhood'
require 'your-app'

Robinhood.define do
  redis{ Redis.new(:host => "10.0.1.1", :port => 6380) }

  process :assigner, throttle: 10 do
    UserAssigner.process!
  end

  process :sweeper, throttle: false, timeout: 20 do
    Sweeper.sweep!
  end
end

Robinhood.run

Each time a process finishes its execution, the lock is released so any other server (or system process) can execute it again. This ensures it will be executed in a synchronous manner (one after the other). It also garantees the executions will be distributed across the processes (or servers) so if a server goes down, the load will be distributed evenly across the rest of them.

You can also set a timeout (in case a process hangs for some reason) and a throttling mechanism (so a process can't be re-scheduled before this time has passed).

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request