Resque is really great. It’s super easy to set up, (pretty) well documented, and damn fast. I’ve set it up for two — going on three — projects here and I’ve gotten stuck on two points twice now.
Add the Resque tasks to your Rakefile
Herp derp. I have no idea how I missed this twice. Make sure you include the rake tasks in your rake file by adding
require 'resque/tasks'
to the top of your Rakefile. If you don’t rake won’t know how to start the Resque worker.
/www/integrand [ master* ] $ QUEUE=* rake resque:work (in /www/integrand) rake aborted! Don't know how to build task 'resque:work' (See full trace by running task with --trace)
Add a script to start your Resque worker
The syntax to start Resque workers is (marginally) verbose. Make your life easier by adding a script to your script folder. All you really need is the following:
QUEUE=* VVERBOSE=1 rake environment resque:work
The VVERBOSE argument, not suprisingly, tells Resque to use very verbose logging to the console. The “environment” argument has Resque load the full Rails environment (read: Your models!) for it’s jobs.
