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 Solid Queue
GoodJob and Solid Queue both sit in operations, but they solve different parts of it.
Thin comparison — they do not replace the same product. Kept readable, left out of search.
Database-backed Active Job backend
No ratings yet# Gemfile
gem "solid_queue"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 also replaces Hosted job monitoring.
What Solid Queue does
Database-backed Active Job backend Solid Queue is a database-based queuing backend for Active Job, designed with simplicity and performance in mind. Installation Usage in development and other non-production environments Single database configuration Dashboard UI Setup Incremental adoption High performance requirements Workers, dispatchers, and scheduler 2477 stars on GitHub · MIT licensed · maintained by rails. Source: <https://github.com/rails/solid queue
Side by side
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| GoodJob | Solid Queue | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Operations | Operations |
| Replaces (differs) | Hosted job monitoring | — |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| GitHub stars (differs) | 3000 | 2477 |
| Gem (differs) | good_job | solid_queue |
| Mounts at (differs) | /good_job | — |
| Member rating | — | — |
What each one gets off your invoice
Both replace
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Only GoodJob
Only Solid Queue
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Questions
- What is the difference between GoodJob and Solid Queue?
- GoodJob and Solid Queue both sit in operations, but they solve different parts of it.
- Can I mount both GoodJob and Solid Queue 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.