Backburner is a recently open-source battle-tested gem for handling jobs using beanstalkd, probably the best job queue available. Everyone is already familiar with Resque and DelayedJob, but why force job queues into Redis or ActiveRecord when beanstalkd is fast, reliable, resilient, persistent and easy to setup. Designed to maintain a consistent and familiar syntax similar to Resque or DelayedJob. If you have used stalker, you will want to check out Backburner as a fully-featured replacement.