
# Minion [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/kraih/minion.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/kraih/minion)

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  A high performance job queue for the Perl programming language, with support
  for multiple named queues, priorities, delayed jobs, job dependencies, job
  progress, job results, retries with backoff, rate limiting, unique jobs,
  statistics, distributed workers, parallel processing, autoscaling, remote
  control, [Mojolicious](http://mojolicious.org) admin ui, resource leak
  protection and multiple backends (such as
  [PostgreSQL](http://www.postgresql.org)).

  Job queues allow you to process time and/or computationally intensive tasks in
  background processes, outside of the request/response lifecycle of web
  applications. Among those tasks you'll commonly find image resizing, spam
  filtering, HTTP downloads, building tarballs, warming caches and basically
  everything else you can imagine that's not super fast.

```perl
use Mojolicious::Lite -signatures;

plugin Minion => {Pg => 'postgresql://postgres@/test'};

# Slow task
app->minion->add_task(slow_log => sub ($job, $msg) {
  sleep 5;
  $job->app->log->debug(qq{Received message "$msg"});
});

# Perform job in a background worker process
get '/log' => sub ($c) {
  $c->minion->enqueue(slow_log => [$c->param('msg') // 'no message']);
  $c->render(text => 'Your message will be logged soon.');
};

app->start;
```

  Just start one or more background worker processes in addition to your web
  server.

    $ ./myapp.pl minion worker

## Installation

  All you need is a one-liner, it takes less than a minute.

    $ curl -L https://cpanmin.us | perl - -M https://cpan.metacpan.org -n Minion

  We recommend the use of a [Perlbrew](http://perlbrew.pl) environment.

## Want to know more?

  Take a look at our excellent
  [documentation](http://mojolicious.org/perldoc/Minion)!
