July 11, 2016Quickly Process API Requests with Shoryuken and SQS Rails has lots of solutions for background jobs. One of these is a brilliant Gem called Sidekiq, which we have written about before on Sitepoint. Sidekiq is great and can solve most developer needs. It is especially useful as it takes over the heavy lifting from Rails. However, it has a few shortfalls: If you are not a Pro user ($750