Resque Methodize

Extends Resque to allow you to call individual methods on a job class. This allows you to group common jobs in a single class rather than having multiple classes that differ slightly or more complex logic to handle variations within a single job.

For example:

require 'resque/plugins/methodize'

class MyJob
  extend Resque::Plugins::Methodize
  @queue = :jobs

  def sample1
    puts "Doing stuff"
  end

  def sample2(message)
    puts "Doing other stuff while #{message}"
  end
end

# Enqueue the job
MyJob.enqueue_sample1
MyJob.enqueue_sample2('taking out the garbage')

This allows a shorter notation for triggering jobs though "enqueue_method" and calling of a specific instance method within the job.

Inspiration

This plugin was inspired by the task framework cooked up at Involver by Mike Wadhera. The task framework, known as Queueable, is built on top of JMS and runs on JRuby. It follows the same process of tasks being instance methods and similar notation for enqueuing. I personally use Resque and wanted to bring that kind of notation and style to my usage of Resque.