Number of resque workers

Question

How many workers are initialized by default in Resque queues when the following command is executed?

QUEUE=(QUEUE NAME) rake environment resque:work

Answer 1

rake resque:work starts exactly one worker. If you want to start multiple workers (for example four workers) you need to run:

COUNT=4 rake resque:workers

When you start resque:workers without a COUNT or with a COUNT of 0 then no workers will be started.

You might want to have a look at the implementation of the resque's rake tasks.