Yep, in Ruby there is a background processing gem built around this: https://github.com/ryandotsmith/queue_classic https://github.com/ryandotsmith/queue_classic

Yep, in Ruby there is a background processing gem built around this: https://github.com/ryandotsmith/queue_classic https://github.com/ryandotsmith/queue_classic Unfortunately if you're using JRuby you can't benefit from this, as the Postgres JDBC driver does polling.