# ruby-shoryuken/shoryuken

A super efficient Amazon SQS thread based message processor for Ruby.

Repository: https://github.com/ruby-shoryuken/shoryuken
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/shoryuken
Language: Ruby
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: ruby, shoryuken, aws-sdk-ruby, aws-sqs, concurrent-ruby, message-processor, sqs-commands, rails, activejob
Last push: 2026-08-25T07:42:04+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 93/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 80, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4383, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 54, "gap_med": 67, "n_releases_24m": 4}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2125, forks 289 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:16.830555+00:00)

## What it is
Shoryuken is a super-efficient, thread-based message processor for Amazon SQS written in Ruby. It integrates with Rails Active Job and provides queue load balancing, per-queue concurrency, batch processing, and an SQS CLI.

## Use cases
- process Amazon SQS messages in a Ruby application
- run background jobs with Rails Active Job backed by SQS
- consume SQS queues with configurable concurrency per queue
- batch process SQS messages efficiently
- manage and inspect SQS queues from the command line
- retry failed messages with exponential backoff
- load balance message processing across multiple queues

## When to choose
- your Ruby or Rails app uses Amazon SQS as its message queue
- you need Active Job integration with SQS as the backend
- you want thread-based, high-throughput SQS consumption with batch support
- you need fine-grained control over per-queue concurrency and visibility timeouts

## When to avoid
- you use RabbitMQ, Kafka, or a non-SQS broker
- you need a process-based job system like Sidekiq with Redis
- your project is not in the Ruby ecosystem

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: message-queue, middleware, cli, concurrency
- domain: backend, web-development, developer-tools, cloud-computing
- platform: ruby, cli
- tags: amazon-sqs, activejob, rails, background-jobs, aws, worker, long-polling, batch-processing, messaging, web-server

## Member repositories
- ruby-shoryuken/shoryuken (main) score 93

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:16.830555+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 2026-08-30T02:52:41.600283+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ruby-shoryuken/shoryuken (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:16.830555+00:00, sha 3c960ea770bb)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.