I've also been through a lot of different background processing libraries for Rails, and so far, if you have simple needs, I'm finding that Spawn is really awes

I've also been through a lot of different background processing libraries for Rails, and so far, if you have simple needs, I'm finding that Spawn is really awesome. http://github.com/tra/spawn/ http://github.com/tra/spawn/ I think something like Resque will be very helpful to us over the long term, but if you're looking for something quick that just works to send a big batch of emails, import stuff via a web service, whatever, check out Spawn. Not at all appropriate for a site like Github, but works well for our vastly smaller websites.