http://hollandonrails.nl/articles/478-Implementing-Resque A "while ago i posted an article":http://hollandonrails.nl/articles/429-Resque-another-background-library with the announcement that Github's new background worker library "'Resque'":http://github.com/defunkt/resque had made its way "to the public community":http://github.com/blog/542-introducing-resque. Now that i'm working with resque myself for some jobs, it's time to give you a little summary of the way resque works and how you should implement it. *Background jobs* With resque, every Ruby class with a perform method can be used as a background job. So all you have to do to implement a background job is creating a class and add the self.perform method! Remember that you need to set the queue name of the queue the job should be put in: <code> class Archive @queue = :queue_name ... def self.perform(args = {}) end end </code> *Startup Redis* Before you can add any jobs to the queue, you need to start the queue manager for resque: "redis":http://code.google.com/p/redis/. After installing redis, you can simply start is with the command 'redis-server'. *Queueing jobs* To add a new job to the queue you simply need to make a call to Resque.enqueue with the class name of the job you want to enqueue and some additional arguments: <code> Resque.enqueue(Archive, arguments) </code> Keep in mind that it _must_ be possible to marshal the additional arguments to json format! (This is because the queues of Resque are saved in json format in the redis server) *Now let's do some work!* After adding jobs to the queue, all there's left to do is start a worker to work through the queue and perform all the jobs you have put in the queues. This can be done with a simple rake task. First put the following line in the Rakefile of your application: <code> require 'resque/tasks' </code> After that, run the following command: <code> QUEUE=* rake environment resque:work </code> Workers for all existing queues will start and run all enqueued jobs! *Resque-web* With resque-web you can watch all running processes in resque. resque-web is a simple web interface that shows you information about queues, running workers and failed jobs. Just run 'resque-web' and open the url in your browser! !http://hollandonrails.nl/system/Resque.jpg!