Resque

What it does

Components

Resque includes a Ruby library, a Rake task for starting workers, and a Sinatra app for monitoring queues, jobs, and workers.checked 5 Oct 2026

Extensibility

Resque supports plugins and customization hooks such as Resque.after_fork.checked 5 Oct 2026

Failure handling

Resque logs job exceptions and supports Redis and Airbrake failure backends.checked 5 Oct 2026

Framework integration

Resque documents integration with Rails ActiveJob and mounting its Sinatra frontend within Rack or Rails applications.checked 5 Oct 2026

Monitoring

The frontend shows worker and queue activity, usage statistics, and job failures.checked 5 Oct 2026

Notable limit

Resque does not support numeric priorities; workers prioritize queues by the order in their queue list.checked 5 Oct 2026

Purpose

Resque is a Redis-backed Ruby library for creating background jobs, placing them on multiple queues, and processing them later.checked 5 Oct 2026

Queues

Queues are persistent, support atomic push and pop through Redis, and store jobs as JSON packages.checked 5 Oct 2026

Redis integration

Resque can use a Redis connection string or an existing Redis object and uses redis-namespace by default to separate its keys.checked 5 Oct 2026

Runtime requirements

The README lists Ruby 3.2.0 or newer, Redis server 4.0 or newer, Redis gem 4.0 or newer, Rack 2.x or 3.x, and Rails 7.2 or newer for ActiveJob.checked 5 Oct 2026

Security

The README demonstrates a Rack frontend example that includes HTTP basic authentication.checked 5 Oct 2026

Support

The README directs questions to its FAQ or the project issue tracker.checked 5 Oct 2026

Workers

Workers can process multiple queues, run across machines with network access to Redis, and use queue order to prioritize work.checked 5 Oct 2026