The Digital Press

Solid Queue is a Ruby on Rails background job system that stores all jobs in the database, offering powerful scheduling, recurring tasks, and concurrency controls without external dependencies like Redis.

Why it matters: It simplifies background job processing with rich features, relying solely on the database for robustness and ease of use.

The big picture: Solid Queue supports scheduled, recurring, and concurrency-limited jobs, enabling complex workflows in Rails apps without external services.

Stunning stat: The Dispatcher polls scheduled jobs every second with batch sizes up to 500, ensuring timely job execution.

Commenters say: Users appreciate the simplicity of database-backed queuing but caution about complexity when scaling across regions or handling multi-datacenter setups.