some_worker.rb

# This is a theoretical means of writing a command line tool for pushing jobs
# into Resque. This is what we've explored. It allows us to keep our workers
# and other models in the same repository.

require 'resque'

# In the worker application, the SomeWorker class is defined and has methods for
# performing the work. This
class SomeWorker
  def initialize(pid)
    @pid = pid
  end
end

# I think we need this.
class MarshaledJob
  def self.perform(marshaled_job)
    Marshal.load(Base64.decode64(marshaled_job)).run
  end
end

job = SomeWorker.new(ARGV[0])

Resque.enqueue_to queue, MarshaledJob, Base64.encode64(Marshal.dump(job))