Getting Started

Sidekiq makes every effort to make usage with Rails 3 applications as simple as possible. If you want to use sidekiq with a generic Ruby daemon, please see Advanced Options. sidekiq does not support Rails 2.x.

Rails 3.x

1. Add sidekiq to your Gemfile:

   gem 'sidekiq'
   

2. Add a worker in app/worker to process messages asynchronously:

   class HardWorker include Sidekiq::Worker def perform(name, count) # do something end end

3. Send a message to be processed asynchronously:

   HardWorker.perform_async('bob', 5)

4. Start sidekiq from the root of your Rails application so the message will be processed:

   sidekiq