The ultimate guide to Sidekiq scheduled jobs
Sidekiq is one of the most popular open-source background job libraries for Ruby. As one of ActiveJob's most popular backends, it's often used to run asynchronous jobs in Rails applications.
It leans on Redis to manage queues and jobs, which makes it fast. Developers can run background jobs using Sidekiq with or without ActiveJob, and we'll explore both in this article.
Just as useful - Sidekiq scheduled jobs allow you to run a job after a given amount of time or at a given time. In this article, we will explore defining a background job, performing background jobs after a given time period as well performing them at a given time. You'll learn to do each of these scheduling methods both with ActiveJob and without it.
Using Sidekiq to write a Ruby background job with or without ActiveJob is very similar, but enqueuing the jobs is a bit different. In this section, we'll write a Ruby class that inherits from Sidekiq. Then, we'll explore a few ways to enqueue this job.
We won't explore Sidekiq Pro or Sidekiq Enterprise, but they offer advanced background jobs features including expiring unprocessed background jobs, job metric reporting, and even rate limiting.
