Asynchronous coding (in Ruby)

Multi-threading

• Ruby Concurrency and Parallelism: A Practical Primer

  • Multiprocessing
  • Multithreading: CRuby vs. JRuby
  • Thread pooling: plain ruby vs. Celluloid gem
  • Background jobs: Sidekiq/Redis vs.

• Threads in Ruby

• Ruby Threads and Processes

  • Creating Ruby Threads
  • Threads and Exceptions
  • Mutual Exclusion (Mutex)

• Concurrent Patterns

  • concurrent-ruby gem

Workers

• Sidekiq
  • Using Sidekiq
    • Free background jobs on heroku
    • Sidekiq Example
    • Comparing Background Processing Libraries: Sidekiq
    • Sidekiq with Redis
    • Running Sidekiq concurrently on a single worker with Heroku
  • Extras
    • How to Implement a Progress Bar Using Sidekiq Status
• Resque
  • Heroku Cedar Background Jobs for free!
• Ruby + Elixir