A Resque plugin. Requires Resque 1.9.10.

resque-pause adds functionality to pause resque jobs through the web interface.

Using a pause allows you to stop the job for a slice of time. The job finish the process it are doing and don't get a new task to do, until the queue is released. You can use this functionality to do some maintenance whithout kill workers, for example.

require 'resque-pause'
class UpdateNetworkGraph
  extend Resque::Plugins::Pause
  @queue = :network_graph
  def self.perform(repo_id)
    heavy_lifting
  end
end

To pause the queue:

ResquePauseHelper.pause(:network_graph)

Then, to unpause the queue:

ResquePauseHelper.unpause(:network_graph)

Single-queue pause is achieved by storing a pause/queue key in Redis.

You can also pause all the queues at once.

To switch on a global pause:

ResquePauseHelper.global_pause()

Then, to remove a global pause:

ResquePauseHelper.global_unpause()

This global pause doesn't interact with any pauses on individual queues. That means, switching the global pause on and off should preserve whatever pauses you might have in place before and even during the global pause period.

An anology would be with light switches and circuit breakers. Positioning light switches is like pausing individual queues. Whatever their position before you flip the breaker (impose a global pause). They'll maintain that position after the global pause.

• When the job instance try to execute and the queue is paused, the job is paused for a slice of time.
• If the queue still paused after this time the job will abort and will be enqueued again with the same arguments.

You have to load ResquePause to enable the Pause tab.

require 'resque-pause/server'

The slice of time the job will wait for queue be unpaused before abort the job could be changed with attribute @pause_check_interval.

By default the time is 10 seconds.

You can define the attribute in your job class in seconds.

class UpdateNetworkGraph
  extend Resque::Plugins::Pause
  @queue = :network_graph
  @pause_check_interval = 30
  def self.perform(repo_id)
    heavy_lifting
  end
end

The above modification will ensure the job will wait for 30 seconds before abort.

To change the exact key that will be put into redis to signal a global pause, use the global_pause_key config

ResquePauseHelper.global_pause_key = "my_custom_key"

$ gem install resque-pause