# Background Task: How to?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/background-task-how-to/194541>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 6, 2010, 9:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/background-task-how-to/194541 "2010-09-06T21:59:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![rodrigo3n](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@rodrigo3n](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rodrigo3n)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2010, 9:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/background-task-how-to/194541/1 "2010-09-06T21:59:12Z")

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Hello everyone, my app is Twitter based, and all I have to do is get  
the tweets of a given user and retweet it in other twitter profile…  
so when user1 tweets, user2 must automatically retweet. I think I must  
write some background job to make this work but I don’t know how? Any  
ideas? Any gem intended for things like this?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![rodrigo3n](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@rodrigo3n](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rodrigo3n)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 5:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/background-task-how-to/194541/2 "2010-09-07T05:46:44Z")

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On Sep 6, 12:58 pm, rodrigo3n [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Hello everyone, my app is Twitter based, and all I have to do is get  
> the tweets of a given user and retweet it in other twitter profile…  
> so when user1 tweets, user2 must automatically retweet. I think I must  
> write some background job to make this work but I don’t know how? Any  
> ideas? Any gem intended for things like this?

Check out these gems: [http://ruby-toolbox.com/categories/queueing.html](http://ruby-toolbox.com/categories/queueing.html)

I’ve used delayed\_job and have been happy with it.

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**Author:** ![rodrigo3n](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@rodrigo3n](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rodrigo3n)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 11:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/background-task-how-to/194541/3 "2010-09-21T23:05:08Z")

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Thanks!