Message Queues in Ruby on Rails

Question

What message queues are people using for their Rails apps and what was the driving force behind the decision to choose it. Does the latest Twitter publicity over their in ho

Answer 1

Chris Wanstrath from github was at the SF Ruby meetup recently, talking about their queue. They tried Starling, beanstalk, and some other variants before settling on Shopify's delayed_job. They are pretty aggressive with their use of backgrounding.

Here's a blog post from last year that talks about their move to DJ.

Where I am now we rolled our own several years ago, but I'm taking some ideas from DJ to improve the handling.