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24 alternatives to Sidekiq

The best background processing for Ruby

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Sidekiq launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1SF
   Sneakers – Fast background processing for Ruby▲114

   2014 · sneakers.io · its alternatives →

2. 2OA
   Omniref - a better search site for Ruby documentation▲110

   2013 · omniref.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Restyaboard▲197

   An open source alternative to Trello

   2015 · its alternatives →

4. 4BR
   BestRuby – Ruby Tricks, Idioms, Refactorings and Best Practices▲92

   2015 · best-ruby.com · its alternatives →

5. 5SA
   Softcover – A publishing platform from the author of the Rails Tutorial▲208

   2014 · softcover.io · its alternatives →

6. 6RA
   Rbkit – a low-pause profiler for ruby▲67

   2015 · rbkit.codemancers.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Honeybadger▲76

   Exception, uptime, and performance monitoring for Ruby.

   2014 · its alternatives →

8. 8GO
   Gallery of Open Source Ruby on Rails Apps▲158

   2013 · opensourcerails.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Katib▲99

   A Markdown Editor for Arabic, Urdu, Farsi and Hebrew

   2014 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Pull Review▲75

    Automated Code Review for Ruby in GitHub

    2014 · its alternatives →

11. 11GI
    Ghuser.io – Complete GitHub profiles▲157

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Shade▲131

    Gradient explorer

    2015 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Ruby on Rails Podcast - 205: Webhooks 101 & 202▲81

    Implementing & scaling webhooks at GitHub

    2015 · its alternatives →

14. 14VA
    Vesper, a plug and play Ruby web framework (Sinatra + Rack + Plugins)▲40

    2012 · vesperapps.com · its alternatives →

15. 15RQ
    Ruby queueing library built on Amazon SQS for background processing▲7

    2012 · github.com · its alternatives →

16. 16AC
    A CLI for Google distributed as a ruby gem▲34

    2012 · kerrick.github.com · its alternatives →

17. 17IJ
    I just released Sleek, a Ruby gem for doing simple analytics▲49

    2013 · goshakkk.name · its alternatives →

18. 18PR
    pry-rescue — workflow-optimized debugging for ruby▲69

    2012 · cirw.in · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Prelang▲82

    Automatic Rails Development

    2014 · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Skylight▲94

    A Smart Profiler (and much more) for Rails Apps

    2015 · its alternatives →

21. 21RT
    RubyMotion-Tutorials.com▲62

    2012 · rubymotion-tutorials.com · its alternatives →

22. 22WA
    WitBot – A Ruby Client for wit.ai▲23

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

23. 23OA
    Octotrack – automatic dependency and security manager for Ruby apps▲46

    2017 · octotrack.com · its alternatives →

24. 24AA
    AnswersEngine – A flexible web scraping platform for Ruby devs▲10

    2019 · answersengine.com · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →