Run laravel jobs one time at specific time only

Question

I came across a situation i want to trigger some code at specific time, ie when user does booking, the freelancer must accept/reject the booking request, if he doesnt, after x duration (15* mins lets say) it would be rejected and user would get push notification. All code is done but currently im running a cronjob after each 1 minute which checks for any unresponded bookings and checks when their time (15mins, dynamic) passed so then I execute my code for afterward, it is not good i guess as its running db queuries over and over each minute.

I'm aware with laravel queue jobs as well but didnt see anything for me to run that job for a specific time only (ie execute this job after 15mins, if it isnt responded, reject it)

Answer 1

have you looked at Queue delay?

https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/queues#delayed-dispatching

This sounds like what you are looking for, I would just trigger the queue and delay when they make a booking so it executes 15 minutes after.

Answer 2

Use scheduled tasks.

use App\Console\Commands\SendEmailsCommand;
 
$schedule->command('emails:send Taylor --force')->daily();
 
$schedule->command(SendEmailsCommand::class, ['Taylor', '--force'])->daily();

https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/scheduling#scheduling-artisan-commands