bensheldon/good_job

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2993 stars · 250 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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GoodJob is a multithreaded, Postgres-based Active Job backend for Ruby on Rails. It stores jobs in Postgres, uses advisory locks and LISTEN/NOTIFY for run-once safety and low latency, and includes cron scheduling, batches, concurrency controls, and a web dashboard.

Use cases

• run background jobs in a Rails app using Postgres as the queue
• schedule recurring cron-like jobs in Rails
• replace Sidekiq or Delayed::Job without adding Redis
• manage and retry failed background jobs from a web dashboard
• control job concurrency and throttling per job class
• process up to a million jobs per day with a simple setup

When to choose

• your Rails app already uses Postgres and you want to avoid extra infrastructure like Redis
• you want full Active Job compatibility with queues, delays, priorities, and retries
• you need cron scheduling, batches, and a built-in monitoring dashboard
• you prefer a lightweight setup runnable inside the web process or a separate CLI process

When to avoid

• you don't use Ruby on Rails or Active Job
• your database is not PostgreSQL
• you need extremely high throughput beyond millions of jobs per day or specialized queue features
• you already run Redis and prefer Sidekiq's ecosystem

Facets

library · maturity stable

message-queue scheduling web-framework developer-tools web-development backend developer-tools ruby activejob job-queue background-jobs postgres cron web-dashboard multithreaded automation rails postgresql

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