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	13.59	67,902,195	10,399	1,779	2012-02-05	2020-06-16	516
resque	8.27	24,722,190	8,734	1,453	2009-11-03	2018-11-06	434
delayed_job	5.29	20,209,838	4,553	912	2009-09-06	2019-08-16	129
kr/beanstalkd	6.85		5,546	743
sneakers	1.72	4,576,603	2,043	287	2013-08-30	2019-12-24	24
bunny	3.45	26,483,866	1,172	270	2009-04-23	2020-04-08	295
delayed_job_active_record	2.21	16,898,138	306	266	2011-09-29	2019-08-20	112
shoryuken	1.36	3,798,001	1,641	213	2014-10-06	2020-02-20	19
queue_classic	0.73	479,128	1,162	140	2011-01-28	2019-10-24	10
que	1.00	1,091,071	1,753	132	2013-11-07	2020-01-17	14
amqp	0.75	2,944,677	631	129	2008-07-17	2018-01-02	144
sucker_punch	1.56	4,836,696	2,465	102	2013-01-19	2019-05-16	50
backburner	0.34	829,173	401	63	2012-07-26	2018-09-19	5
starling	0.29	55,553	468	59	2008-01-10	2010-01-19	5
qu	0.28	57,943	515	47	2011-09-23	2012-06-13	13
gnufied/backgroundrb	0.27		214	29
stalker	0.10	89,135	130	26	2010-03-26	2011-04-12	3
girl_friday	0.39	1,294,449	603	23	2011-04-20	2013-01-05	12
navvy	0.12	36,410	220	18	2010-01-10	2011-01-01	1
ncr/background-fu	0.11		98	11
resque-mongo	0.04	11,368	66	10	2010-01-27	2010-07-26	2
backgrounded	0.07	58,586	128	7	2009-10-26	2016-08-29	7
workling	0.02	10,384	17	5	2009-02-24	2009-02-24	0
lowkiq	0.05	2,399	122	5	2019-10-04	2020-05-07	0
seanohalpin/smqueue	0.03		18	4
barttenbrinke/worker_queue	0.03		25	3
rock-queue	0.01	20,518	20	3	2009-11-16	2010-08-31	0
quebert	0.02	49,877	37	3	2010-10-03	2019-04-09	0
acts_as_executor	0.00	6,161	6	1	2011-05-23	2011-10-23	0
rabbit_jobs	0.02	158,548	0	0	2012-01-24	2014-11-06	0
job_reactor	0.00	14,371	6	0	2012-06-01	2013-06-21	0
cloud-crowd	0.02	80,949			2009-09-14	2015-10-28	0
bj	0.01	35,247			2007-12-12	2008-01-08	0
runner	0.00	4,501			2010-02-13	2010-02-13	0
beetle	0.03	166,407			2010-04-13	2020-06-21	2
rocketjob	0.02	98,269			2015-07-14	2020-06-18	1
jnstq/job_fu
later	0.00	9,836			2012-08-20	2012-10-21	0
frenzy_bunnies	0.00	16,654			2012-07-24	2012-09-16	0