Prevent sidekiq from executing queued up jobs when starting from command line?

Question

When I start sidekiq in my development environment (Rails 3.2), I use the following command:

bundle exec sidekiq

When I do this, sidekiq will execute all jobs that have been queued up when it was not running. e.g. If I have created a bunch of new user accounts during testing, it will try and send welcome emails to all of the fake accounts (my emails are sent from a sidekiq job).

Is there a way to start sidekiq and tell it to delete all pending jobs? That way I can turn it back on without worrying that it will try and run a bunch of jobs that don't need to run (since this is my dev environment).

I have looked in documentation, but can't find an answer, hopefully it's something simple I overlooked...

Answer 1

redis-cli flushall && bundle exec sidekiq