Laravel 5.7 jobs queue not running async

Question

I'm trying to use Laravel 5.7 jobs queue to make some insertions/updates in my database and i problably made something wrong because when the job is called its seems to be blocking my application, therefore, not running asynchronously. My code is in the following structure:

.env

BROADCAST_DRIVER=log
CACHE_DRIVER=file
QUEUE_CONNECTION=sync
SESSION_DRIVER=file
SESSION_LIFETIME=120

queue.php

'default' => env('QUEUE_CONNECTION', 'sync'),

'connections' => [

    'sync' => [
        'driver' => 'sync',
    ],

    'database' => [
        'driver' => 'database',
        'table' => 'jobs',
        'queue' => 'default',
        'retry_after' => 90,
    ],

job_caller.php

method_name(){ 
  InsereProspeccao::dispatch($path, $evento, $equipe)->onQueue('jobs');
  retur some_msg_to_user;
}

job_name.php

use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
use Illuminate\Queue\InteractsWithQueue;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Bus\Dispatchable;

class InsereProspeccao implements ShouldQueue{

use Dispatchable, InteractsWithQueue, Queueable, SerializesModels;

  private $path = '';
  private $evento = '';
  private $equipe = '';


 public function __construct($path, $evento, $equipe){
     $this->path = $path;
     $this->evento = $evento;
     $this->equipe = $equipe;        
 }

   public function handle(){
      //all program logic
      //access DB for insert/update
   }

}

Obs.: I'M READING THE DOCUMENTATION, BUT I CANT FIND WHAT'S GOING WRONG !

Answer 1

You are using QUEUE_CONNECTION=sync which basically has synchronous behavior.

Please follow below steps :

• Run php artisan queue:table which will create a migration for jobs table autimatically

• Run php artisan migrate which will create the table by running migration

• Change QUEUE_CONNECTION=database and as per default, it will automatically take jobs table to manage the queues.

• Run php artisan config:clear to clear application configuration cache

That should be good to go. Check documentation for more help.

Answer 2

Try this : QUEUE_CONNECTION=database and it should be good to go.

You can also set up rabbitmq or other drivers, because their implementation is much more advanced and will be more production - ready. But database is a good start.