Long running script failure on heroku

[schorsch]

Heroku displays an error on importing:

Application Error
An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. Please try again in a few moments.

If you are the application owner, check your logs for details.

[vijendra]

OK. If any request takes more than 30 secs Heroku will throw, Request Timeout.

As suggested here only way to tackle this issue is moving the long running process to background job.
http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/request-timeout#debugging_request_timeouts

[schorsch]

Yes that's the only way. i just looked at heroku and we actually need a second app(sharing the db from the frontend) just for the background job. We should go for delayed job to do so.

Info:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5981508/share-database-between-2-apps-in-heroku