---
title: "Resque: how to requeue failed jobs"
kind: article
slug: resque-how-to-requeue-failed-jobs
created_at: 2010-08-23
tags:
  - Ruby
  - resque
---
Today I found about 100k Resque jobs in the _failed_ queue. Due to a small error in some user content, those jobs all failed. After fixing the problem, how do you reprocess all those jobs?

Option one: go to the `resque-web` backend and click _retry_ about 100.000 times.

Option two: do some cool ruby commands.
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Resque offers you direct access to the _failed_ queue and also provides a method to `requeue` jobs. How easy can it be, right?

With `Resque::Failure.all(0,1)` you retrieve the first job from the _failed_ queue. `Resque::Failure.all` is simply a ruby Array.

To requeue jobs, you can use `Resque::Failure.requeue(index)` where index corresponds to the index of the job in the `Resque::Failure.all` Array.

To requeue all jobs in the _failed_ queue, you can simply run the following commands:

    :::ruby
    # Requeue all jobs in the failed queue
    (Resque::Failure.count-1).downto(0).each { |i| Resque::Failure.requeue(i) }

    # Clear the failed queue
    Resque::Failure.clear

That's all there is to it, really. Happy processing!