Queue:push() being processed synchronously in Laravel 5

Question

I'm running Laravel 5 and I'm trying to get queue a command. I'm kicking it off by running:

Queue::push( new MyCommand() );

To create I command, I did:

php artisan make:command --queued MyCommand

MyCommand contains a sleep(20) and file_put_contents('test.txt','I work!')

Command-line I'm running:

beanstalkd -l 127.0.0.1 -p 11301 &
php artisan queue:listen &

And config/queue.php is set to:

'default'     => env('QUEUE_DRIVER', 'beanstalkd'),

...

'beanstalkd' => [
  'driver' => 'beanstalkd',
  'host'   => 'localhost:11301',
  'queue'  => 'default',
  'ttr'    => 60,
],

When I hit the code from the browser, it hangs for 20 seconds and drops the file before completing, instead of returning immediately.

Is there something else I need to do to properly queue a command in the background?

Answer 1

Make sure, you don't have any QUEUE_DRIVER value other than beanstalkd set in the .env file. The env() method:

'default' => env('QUEUE_DRIVER', 'beanstalkd'),

will first search for that key in the current eviroment loaded variables, and if there are no matches, it will fallback to the beanstalkd value passed as the second parameter.