# 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)!