Example of communication between Sidekiq and Exq

Exq can work alongside Sidekiq. This demo app shows how to construct communication between these tools.

The aim is to have a Sidekiq as a client that creates jobs and Exq a a server that processes these jobs.

There are two applications here:

1. rails_app
2. elixir_app

To start you must pass these steps:

1. in Rails app:

• cd rails_app
• bundle install (loads all dependencies)
• rails s (launches rails server on localhost:3000 by default)

2. in Elixir app:

• cd elixir_app
• mix deps.get (loads all dependencies)
• mix run --no-halt (runs our application and does not halt it so we can see IO.puts calls defined in ElixirApp.JobWorker)

3. curl -X POST -F "job[id]=1" -F "job[title]=test213" -F "job[value]=123" 'http://localhost:3000/jobs'

In console with hanging elixir app you must see JobWorker called with id: 1, title: test213, value: 123