Updated! July 26, 2011 Now covers both the Bamboo and Cedar stacks and incorporates feedback from Scott Watermasysk and our own experiences using Resque on Heroku. When it comes to background processing, I use resque — I do not even consider the other popular alternative delayed_job. I seem to be in good company, this is a tweet from @tobi, the author of delayed_job: I feel like I have to write a