backgrounded.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'rubygems'
require 'thor'

module Backgrounded
  class CLI < Thor

    desc 'enqueue', 'enqueue a clazz.method invocation for resque backgrounded workers'
    method_option :queue, :aliases => "-q", :desc => "resque queue to enqueue the operation to", :default => 'backgrounded'
    method_option :rails_env, :aliases => '-e', :desc => 'control which rails env used to load the redis config', :default => 'production'
    # operation Clazz.method to enqueue into resque backgrounded queue (ex: Foo.bar)
    def enqueue(operation)
      require 'bundler'
      Bundler.setup
      require "thread"
      require "active_support/inflector"
      require "resque"
      require "yaml"
      clazz, method = operation.to_s.split('.')
      raise 'invalid operation' unless clazz && method
      Resque.redis = YAML.load_file(File.join("config", "resque.yml"))[options[:rails_env]]
      Resque::Job.create(options[:queue], 'Backgrounded::Handler::ResqueHandler', clazz, -1, method)
    end
  end
end

Backgrounded::CLI.start