Category: Background Jobs - The Ruby Toolbox

Background Jobs

Process slow tasks asynchronously to keep response times low, improve fault-tolerance and aid with horizontal scaling

	Project Score	Downloads	Stars	Forks	First release	Latest release	Reverse Dependencies
sidekiq	12.66	55,243,969	9,994	1,698	2012-02-05	2019-10-25	487
resque	8.26	21,763,113	8,634	1,456	2009-11-03	2018-11-06	434
delayed_job	5.21	17,353,471	4,503	915	2009-09-06	2019-08-16	127
kr/beanstalkd	6.82		5,355	730
bunny	3.29	23,097,026	1,131	266	2009-04-23	2019-09-29	287
delayed_job_active_record	2.09	14,415,887	300	265	2011-09-29	2019-08-20	111
shoryuken	1.21	2,448,556	1,547	198	2014-10-06	2019-12-02	18
queue_classic	0.74	459,655	1,141	137	2011-01-28	2019-10-24	10
amqp	0.76	2,708,982	629	128	2008-07-17	2018-01-02	144
que	0.96	960,225	1,673	120	2013-11-07	2018-05-18	14
sucker_punch	1.53	4,127,228	2,409	101	2013-01-19	2019-05-16	49
backburner	0.34	743,051	395	61	2012-07-26	2018-09-19	5
starling	0.29	54,480	467	59	2008-01-10	2010-01-19	5
qu	0.29	57,009	516	46	2011-09-23	2012-06-13	13
gnufied/backgroundrb	0.27		214	29
stalker	0.11	88,005	131	26	2010-03-26	2011-04-12	3
girl_friday	0.40	1,274,371	601	22	2011-04-20	2013-01-05	12
navvy	0.12	35,886	221	18	2010-01-10	2011-01-01	1
ncr/background-fu	0.12		98	11
resque-mongo	0.05	11,199	66	10	2010-01-27	2010-07-26	2
backgrounded	0.07	57,637	128	7	2009-10-26	2016-08-29	7
workling	0.02	10,242	17	6	2009-02-24	2009-02-24	0
seanohalpin/smqueue	0.03		18	4
rock-queue	0.02	20,187	20	3	2009-11-16	2010-08-31	0
quebert	0.02	48,822	37	3	2010-10-03	2019-04-09	0
acts_as_executor	0.00	6,002	6	1	2011-05-23	2011-10-23	0
job_reactor	0.00	14,010	6	0	2012-06-01	2013-06-21	0
rabbit_jobs	0.02	155,124	0	0	2012-01-24	2014-11-06	0
later	0.00	9,633			2012-08-20	2012-10-21	0
jnstq/job_fu	0.06
frenzy_bunnies	0.00	16,330			2012-07-24	2012-09-16	0
cloud-crowd	0.02	79,853			2009-09-14	2015-10-28	0
bj	0.01	34,931			2007-12-12	2008-01-08	0
beetle	0.03	149,581			2010-04-13	2019-11-22	2
barttenbrinke/worker_queue
rocketjob	0.01	69,816			2015-07-14	2019-12-09	1
runner	0.00	4,381			2010-02-13	2010-02-13	0