Artisan task to run a job in Resque with Laravel

exampletask.php

<?php

class ExampleTask_Task
{
    public function run()
    {
        // You can pass arguments into the worker as payload
        $args = array('name' => 'John Smith');
        Resque::enqueue('MyAppName', 'ExampleWorker', $args);
        echo "Resque job queued.\n";
        return;
    }
}