Rails Heroku Sidekiq Confirm Procfile is Working

Question

I have set my Procfile in the root of my app:

web: bundle exec thin start -p $PORT
worker: bundle exec sidekiq -c 5 -v

and I can see that heroku sees it when I push my rails app up via git push heroku master

Procfile declares types      -> web, worker

The problem is that a bunch of jobs are just getting stuck in the "enqueue" section.

If I run heroku run bundle exec sidekiq from the command line, only then will the jobs process.

Any ideas on how I could debug this? Thanks!

Answer 1

Have you started worker dynos? Heroku will only start the web process type automatically for you. Check the output of heroku ps - you'll probably only see your web process listed.

You would need to do;

 heroku ps:scale worker=1

to add a worker dyno and scale it to 1.