Top 9 Ruby background-job Projects

Sidekiq

12 12,927 8.9 Ruby

Simple, efficient background processing for Ruby

Project mention: Redis Re-Implemented with SQLite | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-14

That depends on how the `maxmemory-policy` is configured, and queue systems based on Redis will tell you not to allow eviction. https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq/wiki/Using-Redis#memory (it even logs a warnings if it detects your Redis is misconfigured IIRC).
Resque

0 9,384 4.1 Ruby

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

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Shrine

1 3,142 5.7 Ruby

File Attachment toolkit for Ruby applications

Project mention: [Poll] How do you handle file attachments in your Rails app in 2023? | /r/rails | 2023-07-05

Shrine is great, has more features and a simpler API (imo) than ActiveStorage https://shrinerb.com
Karafka

0 1,962 9.6 Ruby

Ruby and Rails efficient multithreaded Kafka processing framework
resque-scheduler

0 1,730 6.7 Ruby

A light-weight job scheduling system built on top of Resque
lambdakiq

0 181 1.1 Ruby

🔄👷 ActiveJob with SQS & Lambda
cloudtasker

0 146 6.1 Ruby

Background jobs for Ruby using Google Cloud Tasks
WorkOS

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Lowkiq

0 141 2.9 Ruby

Ordered background jobs processing
lambda_punch

0 24 3.1 Ruby

🐑👊 Asynchronous background job processing for AWS Lambda with Ruby using Lambda Extensions. Inspired by the SuckerPunch gem but specifically tooled to work with Lambda's invoke model.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2024-04-14.