# brandonhilkert/sucker_punch

Sucker Punch is a Ruby asynchronous processing library using concurrent-ruby, heavily influenced by Sidekiq and girl_friday.

Repository: https://github.com/brandonhilkert/sucker_punch
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/sucker_punch
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2025-12-24T00:47:08+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 58/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 58, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4974, "days_push": 253, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2630, forks 109 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:05.592691+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: concurrency, message-queue, workflow-automation
- domain: backend, web-development, developer-tools
- platform: ruby
- tags: background-jobs, in-memory-queue, sidekiq-alternative, concurrent-ruby, no-external-dependencies, web-server

## Member repositories
- brandonhilkert/sucker_punch (main) score 58

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:05.592691+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 2026-08-30T02:19:38.410164+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/brandonhilkert/sucker_punch (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:05.592691+00:00, sha aa411f753f09)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.