Shopify/maintenance_tasks

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1304 stars · 112 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Rails engine for queuing, running, and managing one-off data migrations (maintenance tasks) such as backfills. It provides a web UI to start, pause, and resume collection-based tasks with batching and throttling.

Use cases

• backfill a new NOT NULL column in a Rails app
• run one-off data migrations with a web UI
• pause and resume long-running database data updates
• batch-update database records with throttling
• manage ephemeral maintenance tasks in Rails

When to choose

• you need to backfill or transform data in a Rails database as a one-off
• you want an interruptible, pausable task UI on top of Active Job
• your task is collection-based (database rows or CSV) and benefits from batching

When to avoid

• the task runs on a regular schedule - use cron or scheduled Active Jobs instead
• the task changes schema rather than data - use a Rails migration
• the task doesn't need to run in the background - use a runner script
• your app can't tolerate a half-completed migration

Facets

library · maturity stable

workflow-automation database web-framework databases web-development developer-tools backend ruby self-hosted rails-engine data-migrations backfill active-job background-tasks web-server

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