resque/resque: Resque is a Redis-backed Ruby library for creating background jobs, placing them on multiple queues, and processing them later.

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Resque (pronounced like "rescue") is a Redis-backed library for creating background jobs, placing those jobs on multiple queues, and processing them later. For the backstory, philosophy, and history of Resque's beginnings, please see the blog post (2009). Background jobs can be any Ruby class or module that responds to perform. Your existing classes can easily be converted to background jobs or you can create new classes specifically to do work. Or, you can do both.
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