So how do we trigger such a long-running process from a Rails request? The first option that comes to mind is a background job run by some of the queuing back-ends such as Sidekiq, Resque or DelayedJob, possibly governed by ActiveJob. While this would surely work, the problem with all these solutions is that they usually have a limited number of workers available on the server and we didn’t want to potentially... - Source: dev.to / about 2 years ago
Several gems support job queues and background processing in the Rails world — Delayed Job and Sidekiq being the two most popular ones. - Source: dev.to / about 2 years ago
Back in the day, before Sidekiq and such, we used Delayed Job https://github.com/collectiveidea/delayed_job. Source: over 2 years ago
There are a few of popular systems. A few need a database, such as Delayed::Job, while others prefer Redis, such as Resque and Sidekiq. - Source: dev.to / about 3 years ago
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