Sidekiq in 1 minute

1 Minute lighting talk: A simple Sidekiq Example

Big Takeaways!

• Sidekiq is crazy easy to install
• Sidekiq uses Celluloid, which is awesome
• Sidekiq is EASY to deploy too!
• YMMV: Can replace 20 resque workers with 1 Sidekiq worker

For more information, you should check out http://mperham.github.com/sidekiq/

Steps (after you clone and bundle)

1. Run the sidekiq worker

   bundle exec sidekiq -r ./worker.rb
   

2. Run the code

   ruby demo
   

3. That's it!

On Your Own

# In your code
DoingIt.perform_async

# The worker
class DoingIt
  include Sidekiq::Worker
  def perform
    puts "the stuff"
  end
end

In Rails 3

1. Add to bundler
2. Add to capistrano require 'sidekiq/capistrano'

Prereqs

1. Have Redis installed and running (brew install redis)
2. Ruby 1.9