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collectiveidea

• script/delayed_job / Delayed::Command
• cap tasks
• jewler
• fixed locking to not allow 2nd worker to lock a failed & rescheduled job
• add timeout to job processing
• always return jobs in priority order (no sort_by { rand })
• fix handle_asynchronous to correctly handle punctuated method names
• send_at method

tricycle

• signal handler chaining

weplay

• send_after method (basically same as send_at)
• script/enqueue_job
• job_errors in separate table (Job.has_many :errors)
• wrapped updates in transactions

technoweenie

• Delayed::Worker model, which tracks each job worker process in the DB

eric

• allow for workers to be limited to certain kinds of jobs by setting extra conditions via Delayed::Job.extra_next_task_conditions

obvio171

• Keep successfully finished jobs around, store creation/start/end timestamps
• Munin plugins (in /contrib) for graphing queue size and average job run time