Rack::Attack VS Sidekiq

Compare Rack::Attack vs Sidekiq and see what are their differences.

Rack::Attack

Rack middleware for blocking & throttling (by rack)

Sidekiq

Simple, efficient background processing for Ruby (by sidekiq)
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Rack::Attack Sidekiq
13 88
5,467 12,906
0.5% 0.6%
7.1 8.9
18 days ago 12 days ago
Ruby Ruby
MIT License GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only
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Rack::Attack

Posts with mentions or reviews of Rack::Attack. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-28.
  • Rails Authentication for Compliance
    5 projects | dev.to | 28 Oct 2023
    The first line of defense should be to put rate-limiting on your login endpoints. rack-attack can help with that. I recommend to limit the login attempts to 5 per minute for a username and block the IP for 30 minutes. You should also limit the number of login attempts from the same IP address, but this needs to be adjusted to the application you are working on, because if it is a tool used in classrooms, it might be legit to have 50 logins within a few minutes from the same IP. (I have a few post written about rack-attack)
  • 4 Essential Security Tools To Level Up Your Rails Security
    10 projects | dev.to | 31 May 2023
    Rack::Attack
  • Huginn’s IP keeps getting blocked by Kickstarter
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 17 Dec 2022
  • 10 things I add to every Rails app
    9 projects | dev.to | 2 Oct 2021
    The final gem I like to include in all projects is rack-attack. This is a rate limiting tool which is great for throttling dangerous actions in your app to prevent bot attacks or other malicious users.
  • Rails application boilerplate for fast MVP development
    63 projects | dev.to | 6 Aug 2021
    rack-attack to prevent bruteforce and DDoS attacks
  • What is happening once you launch and open a Rails app to the real, wild web
    2 projects | /r/rails | 8 Mar 2021
    https://github.com/rack/rack-attack#fail2ban
    2 projects | /r/rails | 8 Mar 2021
    It's entirely normal and expected. If your site gets any traction, volume and sophistication of probing will only increase. I recommend starting by setting up Rack Attack (https://github.com/rack/rack-attack), that will help you block the bad actors for awhile, if the volume gets high enough you'll want to start blocking traffic upstream in reverse proxy or load balancing layer, depending on architecture.

Sidekiq

Posts with mentions or reviews of Sidekiq. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-04.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Rack::Attack and Sidekiq you can also consider the following projects:

Resque - Resque is a Redis-backed Ruby library for creating background jobs, placing them on multiple queues, and processing them later.

Sneakers - A fast background processing framework for Ruby and RabbitMQ

Shoryuken - A super efficient Amazon SQS thread based message processor for Ruby

Sucker Punch - Sucker Punch is a Ruby asynchronous processing library using concurrent-ruby, heavily influenced by Sidekiq and girl_friday.

Apache Kafka - Mirror of Apache Kafka

celery - Distributed Task Queue (development branch)

Delayed::Job - Database based asynchronous priority queue system -- Extracted from Shopify

good_job - Multithreaded, Postgres-based, Active Job backend for Ruby on Rails.

Karafka - Ruby and Rails efficient Kafka processing framework

Que - A Ruby job queue that uses PostgreSQL's advisory locks for speed and reliability.

RocketJob - Ruby's missing background and batch processing system

Backburner - Simple and reliable beanstalkd job queue for ruby