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Creating Long-Lived Web Apps with Ruby on Rails

Sidekiq Is the Best Job Backend for Most Teams

Understand how to configure Sidekiq as the preferred background job backend for Rails apps. Learn to manage Redis configuration, environment variables, and process management with Foreman to run jobs effectively in development and test environments.

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We will go quickly through this setup. Sidekiq’s documentation is great and can provide us with many details about how it works. The point of this chapter is to talk about job code, not Sidekiq, but we need something set up, and we want to use something that is both realistic and substantial. We are likely to encounter Sidekiq in the real world, and we are very likely to encounter a complex job backend configuration.

First, we’ll add the Sidekiq gem to Gemfile:

Ruby
# Gemfile
  # lograge changes Rails' logging to a more
  # traditional one-line-per-event format
  gem "lograge"
→ # Sidekiq handles background jobs
→ gem "sidekiq"
  
  # SASS compiles our CSS, and sassc-rails is maintained
  gem "sassc-rails"

Then, we’ll install it:

bundle install
# «lots of output»
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