Setup

First, you probably want to install beanstalkd, which powers the job queues. Depending on your platform, this should be as simple as (for Ubuntu):

$ sudo apt-get install beanstalkd

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'backburner'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install backburner

Configuration

Backburner is extremely simple to setup. Just configure basic settings for backburner:

Backburner.configure do |config|
  config.beanstalk_url = "beanstalk://127.0.0.1"
  config.tube_namespace = "some.app.production"
  config.on_error = lambda { |e| puts e }
  config.default_priority = 65536
  config.respond_timeout = 120
end