2010-09-06 v1.2 Capistrano task and script/trigger Added Capistrano tasks for pausing, resuming, reloading and listing worker processes. To use, add this at the top of your Capfile: require "resque/capistrano" And associate your worker instances with the role :worker. The workers will be reloaded after deploy:restart, suspended before deploy:web:disable and resumed after deploy:web:enable. Added script/trigger to queue jobs from the command line (but more likely cronjob or upstart). Improved script/worker and /etc/init/workers based on real life experiences. And real life production deploys, let me tell you, can be a PITA. 2010-08-11 v1.1 Accessible options. Allows accessing options from forker. Allows setting verbose and very_verbose options instead of being magically inferred. Allows passing workload to fork! method as an option. 2010-08-03 v1.0 First release 2010-07-30 v1.0.beta Extracted from Flowtown with permission