Delayed Job hits 2.0

Collective Idea has released Delayed Job 2.0 from their fork of everyone’s favorite database-driven job queue for Ruby. The latest version supports new database options including MongoMapper and DataMapper.

Version 2.0 is roughly six times faster than 1.8.5 when using the active_record backend:

                      user     system      total        real
delayed_job 1.8.5 195.670000  14.020000  209.690000 (230.887172)
delayed_job 2.0    36.200000   0.940000  37.140000  ( 39.959233)

What’s even more surprising is that active_record is so much faster than the other two options based on Brandon’s benchmarks:

                     user     system      total        real
active_record      36.200000   0.940000  37.140000 ( 39.959233)
mongo_mapper       69.270000   3.220000  72.490000 ( 90.783220)
data_mapper       255.620000   2.880000 258.500000 (275.550383)

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