# Resque

Resque is a Redis-backed Ruby library for creating background jobs, placing them on multiple queues, and processing them later.

Repository: https://github.com/resque/resque
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/resque
Homepage: http://resque.github.io/
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: queue, background-jobs, job-scheduler, ruby, job-queue, asynchronous-tasks, asynctask, background-worker, background-service, job-management
Last push: 2026-07-28T13:56:54+00:00
Link (homepage): http://resque.github.io/

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 74/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 94, release rhythm 33, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6231, "days_push": 36, "days_rel": 233, "gap_med": 378, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 9480, forks 1656 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:31.328506+00:00)

## What it is
Resque is a Redis-backed Ruby library for creating background jobs, placing them on multiple queues, and processing them later with forked worker processes. It includes a Rake task for running workers and a Sinatra web frontend for monitoring queues, jobs, workers, and failures.

## Use cases
- run background jobs in a Ruby or Rails app
- process asynchronous tasks like sending emails or generating archives
- distribute job workers across multiple machines backed by Redis
- monitor queue contents, worker status, and job failures from a web UI
- schedule delayed and recurring jobs with resque-scheduler
- prioritize jobs across multiple named queues

## When to choose
- you use Ruby/Rails and want a battle-tested Redis-backed job queue
- you want process-per-job isolation to avoid memory leaks and thread-safety issues
- you need a built-in web dashboard for queue and failure monitoring
- you rely on a mature plugin ecosystem around Resque

## When to avoid
- you need high-throughput threaded job processing with lower memory overhead (consider Sidekiq)
- your project requires Ruby 2.x (use Resque 2.x or another library)
- you don't want to operate a Redis server
- you need a language-agnostic or polyglot job system

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: message-queue, scheduling, workflow-automation
- domain: backend, web-development, developer-tools
- platform: ruby
- tags: background-jobs, job-queue, redis, worker, sinatra-dashboard, activejob, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- resque/resque (main) score 74
- resque/resque-scheduler (plugin) score 73

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:31.328506+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:22:03.685211+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/resque/resque (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:31.328506+00:00, sha 37bf30f7b269)
  - homepage: http://resque.github.io/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:21:54.550784+00:00, sha 5f3ab7da04f7)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.