OddJob

Job pools for Elixir OTP applications, written in Elixir.

Installation

The package can be installed by adding odd_job to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:odd_job, "~> 0.1"}
  ]
end

Getting Started

You can add job pools directly to the top level of your own application's supervision tree:

defmodule MyApp.Application do
  use Application

  def start(_type, _args) do

    children = [
      {OddJob, :email},
      {OddJob, :task}
    ]

    opts = [strategy: :one_for_one, name: MyApp.Supervisor]
    Supervisor.start_link(children, opts)
  end
end

The tuple {OddJob, :email} will return a child spec for a supervisor that will start and supervise the :email pool. The second element of the tuple can be any atom that you want to use as a unique name for the pool.

You can also configure OddJob to supervise your pools for you in a separate supervision tree.

In your config.exs:

config :odd_job,
  supervise: [:email, :task]

You can also configure a custom pool size that will apply to all pools:

config :odd_job, pool_size: 10 # the default value is 5

Now you can call on your pools to perform concurrent fire and forget jobs:

OddJob.perform(:email, fn -> send_confirmation_email() end)
OddJob.perform(:task, fn -> update_external_application() end)

Documentation

For more usage, reference the documentation.