Almost that, except you should start the task under a supervision tree:
children = [
{Task.Supervisor, name: MyApp.TaskSupervisor}
]
Task.Supervisor.start_child(MyApp.TaskSupervisor, fn ->
IO.puts "I am running in a task"
end)
From the docs:
Note that the spawned process is not linked to the caller, but only to the supervisor. This command is useful in case the task needs to perform side-effects (like I/O) and you have no interest on its results nor if it completes successfully.
But if you’re on PostreSQL, then consider Oban. It’s awesome.
