Dispatch Laravel job on production server with Tinker 2

Sometimes you want to dispatch some jobs or run a command on the production server on the Laravel app, but sshing in the server is annoying and doesn't feel good.

Dispatch a Laravel job

So Tinker 2 can help you with this. Simple add it to your server list and dispatch the job using PHP code. In this example, I will use the real production app, because it's our real daily problem.

As your see, the job is dispatched and return 0 - successfully exit code.

Run a command with streaming output

Sometimes you want to run a command and see the progressing output from it, you can enable the stream output mode of Tinker 2, by toggling the status-online icon in the status bar of Tinker 2.

To do this, we'll use passthru function of PHP

Thank you for reading, we'll write more blog posts about use-cases for Tinker 2.