Resque Cheatsheet

Status

Resque.info
Resque.queues
Resque.redis
Resque.size(queue_name)

# check out what's coming next in the queue
#    Resque.peek(archive_queue)
#    Resque.peek(archive_queue, 1, 5)
#    Resque.peek(archive_queue, 59, 30)
Resque.peek(queue_name, start=1, count=1)

Workers

Resque.workers
Resque.working
Resque.remove_worker(worker_id) # find worker_id from one of the above methods

Queue Management

# For testing a worker, I usually call the 'perform' method directly.
#    Resque.enqueue(ArchiveWorker)
#    Resque.enqueue(ArchiveWorker, 'matching', 'arguments')
Resque.enqueue(klass, *args)
Resque.dequeue(klass, *args)
Resque.remove_queue(queue_name)

Callbacks

# Each of these can either take a block, or be assigned to with a Proc
Resque.before_first_fork(&blk)
Resque.before_fork(&blk)
Resque.after_fork(&blk)

Problems

Redis connects to wrong host - Redis connects to localhost:6379 by default. Customize this by doing the following:

Resque.redis = 'hostname:port:db'  # all 3 values are optional

Workers die stop after first batch completes - This is caused by the workers losing their connection to MySQL. See this gist for a fix and an explanation. Alternatively, you can add this line at the beginning of your 'perform' method:

ActiveRecord::Base.reconnect!

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