If you want to give your jobs a second change (or more) extend them with this plugin and let the job fail some times before considering it failed.

A resque plugin which logs the time it takes a job's perform method to run.

A resque plugin for tracking jobs and their state (pending, running, failed) based on some originating entity

Handles your HTTP requests in background in non-blocking way using Resque worker

Syntax sugar for Resque consumers. Each consumer is a class, with clean interface, and custom logger. Usefull when count of different events ~100 and more.

A gem that combines all the goodness resque has to offer.

Resque worker that parses log files given filters, and executes a callback of your choice.

Measure duration of a resque job and log it in the logstash

A gem that includes some monitorings to resque and plugins

This Resque plugin sends a notification when a job fails

Resque extension to identify jobs which significantly increase VM heap size using oink

resque-pagerduty provides a Resque failure backend that triggers a Pagerduty incident when an exception is raised by a job.

Adds live GUI queue/worker management to resque-pool

Restrict max number of resque jobs.

resque plugin to have priority in the queue

Enable ActiveRecord query cache for Resque jobs

An Active Record model can be defined as 'queueable'. That adds extensions to add any method to the queue that exists on the method instance.

Resque Plugin adding simple queue statuses.

A Resque plugin which allows you to create dedicated queues for jobs that use rate limited apis. These queues will pause when one of the jobs hits a rate limit, and unpause after a suitable time period. The rate_limited_queue can be used directly, and just requires catching the rate limit exception and pausing the queue. There are also additional queues provided that already include the pause/rety logic for twitter, angelist and evernote; these allow you to support rate limited apis with minimal changes.

resque plugin that allows you to attach information when a job is put in redis, and to do whatever you want with the information when it is popped off the resque queue