brandonhilkert/sucker_punch

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Sucker Punch is a single-process asynchronous background job processing library for Ruby, built on concurrent-ruby. Jobs are stored in memory with no external infrastructure like Redis, making it ideal for fast, non-critical tasks within Rails or Sinatra apps.

Use cases

• send emails asynchronously in a rails app
• run background jobs without redis
• process logs in the background
• offload slow tasks from web requests in ruby
• in-process job queue for sinatra
• cheap background processing on heroku

When to choose

• you need background jobs without extra infrastructure like Redis or a database
• jobs are fast and non-mission-critical such as emails or logging
• you want to minimize hosting costs and memory footprint by running everything in one process

When to avoid

• you need durable jobs that survive process restarts
• you require mission-critical or long-running background processing
• you need distributed processing across multiple machines

Facets

library · maturity stable

concurrency message-queue workflow-automation backend web-development developer-tools ruby background-jobs in-memory-queue sidekiq-alternative concurrent-ruby no-external-dependencies web-server

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