How to destroy jobs enqueued by resque workers?

Question

I\'m using Resque on a rails-3 project to handle jobs that are scheduled to run every 5 minutes. I recently did something that snowballed the creation of these jobs and the stac

Answer 1

Resque already has a method for doing this - try Resque.remove_queue(queue_name) (see the documentation here). Internally it performs Resque.redis.del(), but it also does other cleanup, and by using an api method (rather than making assumptions about how resque works) you'll be more future-proof.