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Ben Sheldon
island94.org · Personal blog · on HN since 2012
Ben Sheldon, creator of the GoodJob library, writes about Ruby on Rails, background jobs, Postgres and Ruby threading.
What HN saysHN commenters cite his GoodJob 1.0 announcement when recommending a Postgres-based ActiveJob back end for Rails projects.
15HN people shared it
2linked it in comments
24stories submitted
319story points
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Most-shared posts
- 1GoodJob – a Postgres-based ActiveJob back end for Ruby on Rails5 people · 184 points · first shared 2020 · 92 comments on HN
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- 4GoodJob is a multithreaded, Postgres-based, ActiveJob back end for Ruby on Rails1 people · 7 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
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- 7Appropriately Using Ruby’s Thread.handle_interrupt1 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 8Perfectly calculate Rails database connection pool size1 people · 2 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 9The Rails Executor: increasingly everywhere1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 10Whatever you do, don't autoload Rails `lib/`1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 11Living Parklife with Rails, Coming from Jekyll1 people · 1 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 12GoodJob, Solid Queue, Sidekiq, Active Job, in 20261 people · 1 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 13Writing Object Shape friendly code in Ruby1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 14Consider Thruster with Puma on Heroku1 people · 1 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 15GoodJob's Cron does distributed locks1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
stephenhuey · 2022-02-16
Yes, I wanted a PG-based one and reached for Good Job on a new project since it was recently created and with Active Job in mind from the start. Check out the intro:
https://island94.org/2020/07/introducing-goodjob-1-0
shaicoleman · 2021-06-12
Another alternative is GoodJob:
https://island94.org/2020/07/introducing-goodjob-1-0
https://github.com/bensheldon/good_job