How to destroy jobs enqueued by resque workers?

Question

I\'m using Resque on a rails-3 project to handle jobs that are scheduled to run every 5 minutes. I recently did something that snowballed the creation of these jobs and the stac

Answer 1

Enter redis console:

redis-cli

List databases:

127.0.0.1:6379> KEYS *
 1) "resque:schedules_changed"
 2) "resque:workers"
 3) "resque:queue:your_overloaded_queue"

"resque:queue:your_overloaded_queue" - db which you need.

Then run:

DEL resque:queue:your_overloaded_queue

Or if you want to delete specified jobs in queue then list few values from db with LRANGE command:

127.0.0.1:6379> LRANGE resque:queue:your_overloaded_queue 0 2
1) "{\"class\":\"AppClass\",\"args\":[]}"
2) "{\"class\":\"AppClass\",\"args\":[]}"
3) "{\"class\":\"AppClass\",\"args\":[]}"

Then copy/paste one value to LREM command:

127.0.0.1:6379> LREM resque:queue:your_overloaded_queue 5 "{\"class\":\"AppClass\",\"args\":[]}"
(integer) 5

Where 5 - number of elements to remove.