We're trying to use TheSchwartz for general job queuing. Unfortunately I'm stuck on sybase, so the ORM won't work. Hacking it to use a DAO rather than relying directly on ORM, but the test suite is completely wack - inserting jobs with jobids when jobid is an auto_increment field? Inserting jobs without uniqkey when there's a unique constraint? How did it ever work?

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Nice summary.

On TheSchwartz, and specifically Adam's comment, you can use SQLite with it too. Here is some stuff to do that: TheSchwartz::Schema (and auto-deployment stub). It's not explained… but it should be pretty obvious and, I hope, just work for you. The DBIx::Class stuff is not necessary in any way to use TheSchwartz, it just makes setting up the DB a snap.