Resque snippits

clear_queue.rb

Resque.redis.del 'queue:conversions'
Resque.redis.del 'queue:statistics'

#Clear all workers from Redis to ensure no worker creep
Resque.redis.smembers('workers').each{|w| Resque.redis.srem 'workers',w}

#Inspecting error types and histogram of counts:
failed_hash = (Resque.redis.lrange :failed, 1,473).collect{|ea| JSON.load ea};p nil
histogram = {}
failed_hash.each { |item| histogram[item["exception"]] = (histogram[item["exception"]] || 0) +1 };p nil
histogram

#kill specific working queue, rough command it might take out other forked processes, but it's meant as hammer attack
ps -ef | grep resque | egrep -E 'Forked|statistics' | cut -c8-15 | xargs kill -9

#resque process tree
ps axjf | egrep -e 'resque.*Forked|resque.*Waiting|resque.*Processing'