How to Use Resque Web alongside a Sinatra app

Question

I’ve got a Sinatra web app. I’m using Resque and Resque Scheduler, and now I’m looking into adding Resque Web to (hopefully) see what my Resque queue looks like. Now here’s my problem: the official Resque Web is a Rails app. I don’t know how to use a Rails app inside of Sinatra, or if it’s even possible.

So my question: What’s the best way to implement Resque Web into my Sinatra app? Can I use the rails app inside of Sinatra? I saw one person say that you should have a separate part of your app running Rails, but that seems really nasty. Is there a better way to do it?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Here’s what I was looking for: http://asciicasts.com/episodes/271-resque

Resque-web can be stand alone, run from the command line. So I’m just starting it up with a shell command whenever I spin up an instance of my server. Not exactly what I was looking for, but it does the trick!

Thanks for the suggestions, all.

Answer 2

I've not used the ResqueWeb, but Rails and Sinatra are both Rack compliant frameworks, so they should be able to run each other or alongside.

http://www.sinatrarb.com/intro.html#Rack%20Middleware

## my-amazing-app.rb
use MySlightlyLessAmazingRailsApp
# rest of Sinatra stuff…

or

# config.ru
map "/" do
  # easiest to mount Sinatra apps this way if using the modular style
  run MyAmazingSinatraApp
end

map "/resque" do
  run MySlightlyLessAmazingRailsApp
end

I don't know how you'd do this with Rails, perhaps try this link http://m.onkey.org/rails-meets-sinatra or perhaps this:

RailsApp::Application.routes.draw do
  mount MyAmazingApp, :at => "/more-amazed"
  # rest of the rails routes
end