Beehive

Beehive is a super lightweight queue system that uses Redis as it's storage engine. Beehive was created because I got fed up with Resque's large memory footprint and not being able to find a decent alternative that wasn't broken.

• Redis and the redis Gem - install with gem install redis
• The JSON gem - install with gem install json
• Ruby >= 1.9.2

Installing Beehive is done as following:

$ gem install beehive

Once it's installed you can use it as following:

require 'beehive'

client = Beehive::Client.new
client.queue('email.send', :to => 'info@yorickpeterse.com', :subject => 'Hello, world!')

Your worker would look like the following:

require 'beehive'

Beehive.job('email.send') do |params|
  # Do something with Net::IMAP, Net::POP, etc
end

worker = Beehive::Worker.new({}, {:jobs => ['email.send']})
worker.work

For more examples see the "example" directory.

Beehive is licensed under the MIT license, a copy of this license can be found in the file "license.txt".