tobi/delayed_job
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Database backed asynchronous priority queue -- Extracted from Shopify
6 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 1 story, 5 comments · first 2009-11-03 · latest 2026-01-14
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…years. The solid queue of yesteryear was delayed_job which was originally created by Shopify's CEO. https://github.com/tobi/delayed_job Shopify however grew (as many others) and we saw a host of blog posts and talks about moving away from…
comment by gregors · 2026-01-14 · in I’m leaving Redis for SolidQueue -
DJ could use a update to be fully Rails 4.2 compatible. I'd love a PR for that and would merge. https://github.com/tobi/delayed_job
comment by xal · 2014-12-20 · in Rails 4.2 released -
…in a job que and do the processing later. Some tools for the job: https://github.com/defunkt/resque https://github.com/tobi/delayed_job Also don't forget to cache. You shouldn't worry too much if you do these two properly.
comment by rprime · 2011-09-22 · in Ask HN: Where/How can I learn more about general webapp maintenance? -
Looks like you need something like Delayed Job: http://github.com/tobi/delayed_job Not sure of an equivalent in PHP.
comment by MrMatt · 2010-07-02 · in Ask HN: Are there tools to schedule tasks to execute at specific times? -
FWIW, xal (who you replied to) == the author of DJ. http://github.com/tobi/delayed_job
comment by mattyb · 2009-11-03 · in Introducing Resque