Ruby background-jobs

Open-source Ruby projects categorized as background-jobs

Top 10 Ruby background-job Projects

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  1. Sidekiq

    Simple, efficient background processing for Ruby

    Project mention: Outgrowing Postgres: Handling increased user concurrency | dev.to | 2025-02-03

    If you’re developing in Node, BullMQ has been rising in popularity as a go-to solution. For Rails applications, you can use ActiveJob with backends like Sidekiq for efficient background job processing.

  2. Nutrient

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  3. Resque

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

    Project mention: What are some popular background job processing libraries for Rails (e.g., Sidekiq, Delayed Job)? | dev.to | 2024-12-23

    Resque relies on Redis for job queue management and is known for its scalability and efficiency.

  4. Shrine

    File Attachment toolkit for Ruby applications

    Project mention: Hanami Shrine - file handling in Hanami | dev.to | 2024-05-13

    We will be using shrine and I want to start this post by saying a few words about it.

  5. Karafka

    Ruby and Rails efficient multithreaded Kafka processing framework

  6. solid_queue

    Database-backed Active Job backend

    Project mention: Replacing Cron Jobs With Active Jobs in Rails | dev.to | 2024-12-18

    We have to start by adding the Solid Queue gem to our bundle, installing it, then running the installer to set up the initial config files for our application:

  7. resque-scheduler

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

  8. lambdakiq

    🔄👷 ActiveJob with SQS & Lambda

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  10. cloudtasker

    Background jobs for Ruby using Google Cloud Tasks

  11. Lowkiq

    Ordered background jobs processing

  12. lambda_punch

    🐑👊 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).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source background-job projects in Ruby? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 Sidekiq 13,238
2 Resque 9,443
3 Shrine 3,193
4 Karafka 2,119
5 solid_queue 2,033
6 resque-scheduler 1,739
7 lambdakiq 195
8 cloudtasker 154
9 Lowkiq 142
10 lambda_punch 25

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