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	10.34	272,122,428	13,320	2,407	2012-02-05	2025-06-30	663
resque	4.57	47,136,942	9,459	1,562	2009-11-03	2024-12-30	457
delayed_job	3.08	56,219,133	4,819	956	2009-09-06	2024-11-08	135
sneakers	1.06	13,075,899	2,248	311	2013-08-30	2019-12-24	24
delayed_job_active_record	1.32	50,544,727	353	310	2011-09-29	2024-11-09	118
bunny	1.81	65,617,501	1,400	304	2009-04-23	2025-03-23	334
shoryuken	1.21	25,202,673	2,072	284	1980-01-02	2024-02-09	22
good_job	0.93	4,884,775	2,833	218	1980-01-02	2025-06-30	2
que	0.76	3,386,198	2,313	183	2013-11-07	2024-10-28	17
solid_queue	0.74	4,986,842	2,140	178	2023-12-18	2025-04-20	12
queue_classic	0.43	906,381	1,187	144	2011-01-28	2022-05-18	10
amqp	0.37	5,506,935	628	127	2008-07-17	2018-01-02	148
sucker_punch	0.97	15,826,308	2,636	109	2013-01-19	2023-12-11	51
backburner	0.20	1,974,223	433	70	2012-07-26	2023-01-16	6
starling	0.16	79,550	463	58	2008-01-10	2010-01-19	5
qu	0.16	67,622	505	47	2011-09-23	2012-06-13	13
beaneater	0.13	2,328,291	201	42	2012-11-02	2022-10-14	25
gnufied/backgroundrb	0.16		214	31
stalker	0.06	115,287	132	25	2010-03-26	2011-04-12	3
girl_friday	0.18	1,407,306	606	24	2011-04-20	2013-01-05	12
navvy	0.07	54,774	215	18	2010-01-10	2011-01-01	1
lowkiq	0.04	33,203	142	12	2019-10-04	2022-08-10	0
ncr/background-fu	0.07		96	11
resque-mongo	0.02	16,981	64	10	2010-01-27	2010-07-26	2
delayed	0.05	493,892	160	9	1980-01-02	2025-04-03	0
backgrounded	0.04	90,623	130	6	2009-10-26	2016-08-29	7
workling	0.01	14,704	17	5	2009-02-24	2009-02-24	0
seanohalpin/smqueue	0.02		18	4
barttenbrinke/worker_queue	0.02		25	3
rock-queue	0.01	32,402	20	3	2009-11-16	2010-08-31	0
quebert	0.01	88,078	36	3	2010-10-03	2019-04-09	0
rabbit_jobs	0.01	289,092	0	0	2012-01-24	2014-11-06	0
job_reactor	0.00	27,934	6	0	2012-06-01	2013-06-21	0
legionio	0.00	22,418	2	0	2019-02-08	2021-10-31	6
acts_as_executor	0.00	13,521	6	0	2011-05-23	2011-10-23	0
frenzy_bunnies	0.00	28,123			2012-07-24	2012-09-16	0
jnstq/job_fu
cloud-crowd	0.00	130,465			2009-09-14	2015-10-28	0
bj	0.00	47,562			2007-12-12	2008-01-08	0
beetle	0.01	376,811			2010-04-13	2023-03-27	1
rocketjob	0.01	352,242			2015-07-14	2023-11-10	1
runner	0.00	7,427			2010-02-13	2010-02-13	0
later	0.00	16,928			2012-08-20	2012-10-21	0