Getting Started

Sidekiq makes every effort to make usage with Rails 3 applications as simple as possible. sidekiq does not support Rails 2.x.

Rails 3.x

1. Add sidekiq to your Gemfile:

gem 'sidekiq'

2. Add a worker in app/workers 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

That's it. You do not need to turn on thread-safe mode. You probably should tune your ActiveRecord pool size if your workers are using ActiveRecord. See Advanced Options for more detail.

Plain Ruby

There are some non-Rails examples in examples/. por.rb is a "Plain Old Ruby" example, and sinkiq.rb is a Sinatra integration.