I have been using Redis/Resque for some time now. Recently, I needed a Rake task to quit all running Resque workers for deploying an application via Continuous Integration using Hudson builds.

Here is with what I came up with:

Just place it in a rake file under the “lib/tasks” directory and you are good to go. If you are running “rake -T” from your Rails root you should see the task.

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