diff --git a/lib/hirefire/railtie.rb b/lib/hirefire/railtie.rb
index b251293..d922715 100644
--- a/lib/hirefire/railtie.rb
+++ b/lib/hirefire/railtie.rb
@@ -15,5 +15,20 @@ class Railtie < Rails::Railtie
       HireFire::Initializer.initialize!
     end
 
+    ##
+    # Adds additional rake tasks to the Ruby on Rails environment
+    #
+    # @note
+    #   In order for Resque to run on Heroku, it must have the 'rake jobs:work'
+    #   rake task since that's what Heroku uses to start workers. When using
+    #   Ruby on Rails automatically add the necessary default rake task for the user
+    #
+    # @note
+    #   Delayed Job already has 'rake jobs:work' built in.
+    #
+    rake_tasks do
+      require File.join(WORKERS_PATH, 'resque', 'tasks')
+    end
+
   end
 end
diff --git a/lib/hirefire/workers/resque/tasks.rb b/lib/hirefire/workers/resque/tasks.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7335ddf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/hirefire/workers/resque/tasks.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# encoding: utf-8
+
+require 'resque/tasks'
+
+task 'resque:setup' => :environment do
+  ENV['QUEUE'] ||= '*'
+end
+
+desc 'Alias for the rake task "resque:work", this is required for Heroku.'
+task 'jobs:work' => 'resque:work'