GoodJob
Better knownA Postgres-backed Active Job backend that ships its own dashboard
No ratings yet# Gemfile
gem "good_job"
# config/routes.rb
mount GoodJob::Engine, at: "/good_job"GoodJob vs Mission Control — Jobs
Both replace Hosted job monitoring. GoodJob is the better-known of the two (3,000 stars), while Mission Control — Jobs covers a narrower slice of the same job.
A dashboard for Active Job queues, mounted into your app
No ratings yet# Gemfile
gem "mission_control-jobs"
# config/routes.rb
mount MissionControl::Jobs::Engine, at: "/jobs"What GoodJob does
GoodJob is a job backend and a dashboard in one gem, using the database you already run. Multithreaded Active Job execution backed by Postgres Cron-style recurring jobs Concurrency controls and job throttling A mounted dashboard: queued, running, finished, discarded, with retry and discard Runs inside your web process if you want zero extra infrastructure The reason this belongs in the directory: adopting it removes a Redis instance and a job-monitoring subscription at the same time.
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Why you might pick it
- It has substantially more adoption — 3,000 stars against 1,100.
What Mission Control — Jobs does
The official Rails dashboard for Active Job. If you moved to Solid Queue, this is the screen you were missing. Jobs in flight, queued, blocked, failed and scheduled Retry and discard, individually or in bulk Queue pausing Multiple applications and servers in one UI
Side by side
Rows where the two differ are marked.
| GoodJob | Mission Control — Jobs | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Operations | Operations |
| Replaces | Hosted job monitoring | Hosted job monitoring |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| GitHub stars (differs) | 3000 | 1100 |
| Gem (differs) | good_job | mission_control-jobs |
| Mounts at (differs) | /good_job | /jobs |
| Member rating | — | — |
What each one gets off your invoice
Both replace
Only GoodJob
Nothing unique here.
Only Mission Control — Jobs
Nothing unique here.
Questions
- What is the difference between GoodJob and Mission Control — Jobs?
- Both replace Hosted job monitoring. GoodJob is the better-known of the two (3,000 stars), while Mission Control — Jobs covers a narrower slice of the same job.
- Can I mount both GoodJob and Mission Control — Jobs in the same Rails app?
- Technically yes — engines mount at different paths — but they overlap, so running both usually means two sets of tables doing one job. Pick one.
- Do GoodJob and Mission Control — Jobs replace the same SaaS product?
- Both are listed as replacements for Hosted job monitoring.