[rantfoil]

Workling has worked well for us -- Rany Keddo is a phenomenal open source guy.

Tobi's deferred jobs also looked totally solid to me. That one's proven because it drives Shopify. We use his liquid plugin, which is also stellar.

That underlines a big issue with Rails dev even today -- its really hard to know what's good / what works, and what is just some weekend project for someone.

[technoweenie]

Delayed-Job works great for Lighthouse/Tender from us, and for Github too. It's definitely a great starter queue until your needs necessitate something more heavy duty like nanite.

[tptacek]

Found Tobi's delayed_job (not deferred) --- I think I like the design better than Workling; fewer moving parts, just a database backend end a rake script. The biggest problem we have with backgroundrb (which again: nightmare) is not really ever knowing the state of current running jobs.

[ezmobius]

yeah backgroundrb sucks, who wrote that shit? (me and i wish i never did)

[tptacek]

(oh, and thank you).