Robot

# the following options can be set here and they wont need to be set in each definition below
#this sets default behavoir for robots. redefining these will overwrite the default
#set a log file
Robot.logger = Logger.new("log/robot.log")
#specifying a pid root will default all robots to create a pid at <PID_ROOT>/robot.<DEFINED_NAME>.pid
Robot.pid_root = Rails.root("tmp","pids")
#will default hoptoad in each robot
Robot.hoptoad = HoptoadNotifier
#this will default the failsafe ... it already defaults to true ... use this to default to false
Robot.failsafe = true

Robot.define(:hourly) do |robot|
  # Omit this line if you don't want logging, or define it as a custom logger or it is defined globally
  # if you want a separate log file for your Robot tasks.
  robot.logger = Logger.new("log/robot.log")

  # Omit this line if you don't want to synchronize tasks or it is defined globally. Adding a PIDMutex
  # here will ensure that only 1 process is running this task at any time.
  # Note that since PIDMutex uses a file as a locking mechanism, this method
  # doesn't scale beyond a single filesystem.
  robot.mutex = PIDMutex.new("tmp/pids/hourly.pid")

  # Omit this line if you're not using Hoptoad or it is defined globally.
  robot.hoptoad = HoptoadNotifier

  # This is true by default, I'm just including it here as an example. If
  # you set it to false, then there won't be a failsafe mechanism, meaning
  # any exceptions raised by tasks will be unchecked. You'll usually want to
  # leave this set to true.
  robot.failsafe = true

  robot.perform("Some long-running task") { LongTask.run }
end