SolidQueue Plus

SolidQueue Plus is a Ruby gem that extends the functionality of Rails 8's Solid Queue system with:

• ✅ Retry middleware with exponential backoff
• 📣 Slack or Email failure notifications
• 📊 Lightweight Rails engine dashboard for job monitoring

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Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'solid_queue_plus', github: 'sukendhar/solid_queue_plus'

Then run:

bundle install

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Usage

🔁 Automatic Job Retries

Add this to an initializer:

SolidQueue.before_perform do |job|
  SolidQueuePlus::RetryMiddleware.new.call(job) do
    job.perform_now
  end
end

Customize retry logic in RetryMiddleware.

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🛑 Failure Notifications

Set your Slack webhook URL:

export SOLID_QUEUE_SLACK_WEBHOOK=https://hooks.slack.com/services/your/webhook/url

Edit SolidQueuePlus::Notifier to integrate with:

• Slack (slack-notifier)
• Email (via ActionMailer, optional)

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📊 Monitoring Dashboard

Mount the dashboard in config/routes.rb:

mount SolidQueuePlus::Engine => "/solid_queue_plus"

Then open http://localhost:3000/solid_queue_plus to view live job status.

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Roadmap

• [ ] Add Hotwire interactivity to dashboard
• [ ] Add filters and retry actions to dashboard UI
• [ ] Built-in authentication support

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Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/sukendhar/solid_queue_plus.

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License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.