How to handle redis pub/sub in rails

Question

I have a rails app which talks to a socket.io app via Redis. I can create a message on the rails app and socket.io broadcasts it, but I have no idea how to handle the incoming messages (ie I want a service to always be listening to Redis and process the incoming messages). Can you please tell me how I can achieve this?

Answer 1

you can use sidekiq gem here which is by default using redis so whenever you enqueue a job to redis via perform_later method provided by sidekiq. Sidekiq worker will run it whenever a worker is free. For Pub/sub as you mentioned in the header you can go for Action Cable feature provided by Rails.