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An Introduction to Solid Queue for Ruby on Rails


In this two-part series, we'll dig deep into Solid Queue's internals, discover what makes it unique, and learn more about why it was created in the first place.

One of the most exciting additions to Rails 8 is undoubtedly Solid Queue, a new library for processing background jobs. In this two-part series, we'll dig deep into Solid Queue's internals, discover what makes it unique, and learn more about why it was created in the first place. A record with a last_heartbeat_at older than a threshold — which defaults to 5 minutes — indicates that the corresponding worker has met a tragic fate.

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