If you're writing a spec for an application using Resque Show archive.org snapshot , you may need to work off queues manually without having an external worker running.

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For this, you could use ResqueSpec Show archive.org snapshot which basically stubs away Resque completely.

If you don't want that, but more closely mimic what actually happens, use this instead:

module Resque

  def self.work_off(*queues)
    if queues.any? { |queue| peek(queue) }
      worker = Worker.new(*queues)
      worker.cant_fork = true
      worker.work do
        unless queues.any? { |queue| peek(queue) }
          worker.shutdown
        end
      end
    end
  end

end