Stops workers from processing jobs in these queues, so you can e.g. restart indexing/mail/… servers safely

Usage

REDIS.sadd 'blocked-resque-queues', 'low'

Code

class Resque::Worker
  def queues_with_blocked
    blocked = REDIS.smembers('blocked-resque-queues') || []
    queues_without_blocked - blocked
  end
  alias_method_chain :queues, :blocked
end