How to make sure resque background jobs are always up?

Question

I use ActiveJob with a resque back-end and use capistrano-resque to (re)start my work processes on deploy.

What I have been strugling with is making sure those processes are always up. Can and could such a process crash? Should I put safeguards in making sure that my background jobs always get picked up by a worker?

I have searched far and wide but have not found any standard solution to this.

Answer 1

I am using god with resque. Here's an example script for it.

Capistrano

desc "Restart resque workers"
task :restart_workers, roles: :resque do
  run "sudo god restart resque-production"
end

after 'deploy:restart', 'deploy:restart_workers'

where resque-production is the w.name from the script example.