Category

Background Jobs

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

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Simple, efficient background processing for Ruby.
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Resque is a Redis-backed Ruby library for creating background jobs, placing those jobs on multiple queues, and processing them later. Background jobs can be any Ruby class or module that responds to perform. Your existing classes can easily be converted to background jobs or ...
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A long-lived project that still receives updates
Delayed_job (or DJ) encapsulates the common pattern of asynchronously executing longer tasks in the background. It is a direct extraction from Shopify where the job table is responsible for a multitude of core tasks.
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A long-lived project that still receives updates
Easy to use, feature complete Ruby client for RabbitMQ 3.9 and later versions.
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1.38
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Shoryuken is a super efficient AWS SQS thread based message processor
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Low commit activity in last 3 years
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Asynchronous processing library for Ruby
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1.04
The project is in a healthy, maintained state
A multithreaded, Postgres-based ActiveJob backend for Ruby on Rails
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0.92
A long-lived project that still receives updates
A job queue that uses PostgreSQL's advisory locks for speed and reliability.
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queue_classic is a queueing library for Ruby apps. (Rails, Sinatra, Etc...) queue_classic features asynchronous job polling, database maintained locks and no ridiculous dependencies. As a matter of fact, queue_classic only requires pg.
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Mature EventMachine-based RabbitMQ client.
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Beanstalk background job processing made easy
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A Ruby/Rails job server and scheduler
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Starling is a light-weight, persistent queue server that speaks the memcached protocol. It was originally developed for Twitter's backend.
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a Ruby library for queuing and processing background jobs with configurable backends.
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Simple beanstalkd client for ruby
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Simple background job processor inspired by delayed_job, but aiming for database agnosticism.
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Running Long Background Tasks In Ruby On Rails Made Dead Simple
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A job queueing and background workers system using Beanstalkd. Inspired by the Minion gem.
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Delayed is a multi-threaded, SQL-driven ActiveJob backend used at Betterment to process millions of background jobs per day. It supports postgres, mysql, and sqlite, and is designed to be Reliable (with co-transactional job enqueues and guaranteed, at-least-once execution), Scalable (with an opti...
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Execute any ActiveRecord Model method in the background
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Resque-mongo is a fork of resque that uses mongo as a queue backend. Resque is a Redis-backed Ruby library for creating background jobs, placing those jobs on multiple queues, and processing them later. Background jobs can be any Ruby class or module that responds to perform...
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A highly available, reliable messaging infrastructure
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Fast and easy task runner for Rails. Got work?
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A Ruby library implementing a Simple Message Queue protocol
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Quebert is a worker queue framework built around beanstalkd. Use it in your Rails apps for job processing.
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The crowd, suddenly there where there was nothing before, is a mysterious and universal phenomenon. A few people may have been standing together -- five, ten or twelve, nor more; nothing has been announced, nothing is expected. Suddenly everywhere is black with people and more com...
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A unified interface for various messaging queues
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easily do background work in rails, without commiting to a particular runner. comes with starling, bj and spawn runners.
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LegionIO is an extensible framework for running, scheduling and building relationships of tasks in a concurrent matter
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Lean Redis-backed event scheduling library for Ruby
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JobReactor is a library for creating, scheduling and processing background jobs. It is asynchronous client-server distributed system based on EventMachine.
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Seamlessly integrates Java's Executor framework with Ruby on Rails
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