zoolutions/sidekiq-unique-jobs

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A Ruby gem that prevents duplicate Sidekiq background jobs using Redis-based locks. It provides multiple lock types and conflict strategies to control job uniqueness across the enqueue and execution lifecycle.

Use cases

• prevent duplicate sidekiq jobs with same arguments
• ensure only one instance of a background job runs at a time
• deduplicate scheduled jobs in rails
• stop concurrent execution of the same worker
• replace existing queued job with a new one
• reschedule duplicate jobs instead of dropping them

When to choose

• you use Sidekiq and need job uniqueness guarantees
• you need fine-grained control over lock lifecycles and conflict handling
• you already run Redis alongside Sidekiq

When to avoid

• you don't use Sidekiq for background processing
• you use a Sidekiq version older than 8.0 or Ruby older than 3.2
• you need uniqueness across different job systems

Facets

library · maturity active

middleware caching concurrency backend developer-tools ruby sidekiq background-jobs job-deduplication distributed-locks redis-locks automation redis

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