bensheldon/good_job
Multithreaded, Postgres-based, Active Job backend for Ruby on Rails.
Recommended between 2026-01-14 and 2026-01-28. Last pushed 2026-11-01.
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“I regret that we have switched from good_job”
— jacob-s-son, 2026-01-14 · strong recommendation · original comment on Hacker News ↗
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Every author of the free software obviously has rights to full control of the scope of their project. That being said, I regret that we have switched from good_job ( https://github.com/bensheldon/good_job ). The thing is - Basecamp is a MySQL shop and their policy is not to accept RDMS engine specific queries. You can see in their issues in Github that they try to stick "universal" SQL and are personally mostly concerned how it performs in MySQL( https://github.com/rails/solid_queue/issues/567#issuecomment-2897224121 , https://github.com/rails/solid_queue/issues/508#issuecomment-2977215556 ). They also still have no support for batch jobs: https://github.com/rails/solid_queue/pull/142 .
“Good Job is a strong attempt.”
— brightball, 2026-01-28 · original comment on Hacker News ↗
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Good Job is a strong attempt. I believe it's based around Advisory Locks though. https://github.com/bensheldon/good_job
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