Queue Module for Nails

A lightweight, database-backed job queue for Nails. Push a task with a payload, run it in a long-lived worker, and retry it with exponential backoff when it fails.

• Storage: MySQL tables managed by migrations (nails_queue_job, nails_queue_worker)
• Concurrency: jobs are reserved with SELECT ... FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED, so MySQL 8.0+ or MariaDB 10.6+ is required
• Ordering: first in, first out by job id among jobs that are due
• Retries: per-task maximum, backoff from 5 seconds doubling to a 5 minute cap, with 20% jitter
• Admin: an overview screen and a dashboard warning when a queue has no live worker

Console commands:

• queue:work runs a worker. Repeat --queue to work several queues. It defaults to default.
• queue:run <job> runs one job's task in the current process, without changing the job
• queue:clean removes dead workers, resets stuck jobs, and deletes old jobs. Cron runs it every 5 minutes.

Install with Composer, then migrate:

composer require nails/module-queue
nails db:migrate

A worker must be running for anything to happen, and it should be kept alive by a process manager such as systemd or Supervisor. default and priority are separate queues with no special treatment: the app has to run a separate worker for priority.

See the documentation for writing tasks, defining queues, configuration, running workers under systemd or Supervisor, and the admin screen.