For a Rails side project recently I finally had the need for a background task handler. Now traditionally I’d jump at Sidekiq, and for good reason. It’s sexy, relatively simple, and comes with a ton of niceties like automatic exponential back-off retries. For this project however, at least at this stage, Sidekiq is overkill. We just need to run some ActionMailers out of the render loop, so we’d like to avoid booting up another server if possible. So, in comes SuckerPunch, a gem built to...
