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

  A job queue for the [Mojolicious](http://mojolicious.org) real-time web
  framework, with support for multiple named queues, priorities, delayed jobs,
  job results, retries with backoff, statistics, distributed workers, parallel
  processing, autoscaling, 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. 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;
use 5.20.0;
use experimental '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)!
