Rails 8 ships Solid Queue, Solid Cache and Solid Cable by default, but many teams still reach for Sidekiq, Redis and AnyCable. This post compares each pair with October 2026 versions and features, and gives a per-component decision table.
Solid Queue is the Rails 8 default and Sidekiq is the long-standing incumbent. Here is how they compare in late 2026, which Rails versions each one supports, and a decision guide for new and existing apps.
A start-to-finish walkthrough of shipping a Rails 8 app with Vite, Solid Queue and PostgreSQL to a single Ubuntu VPS using Kamal 2 and Docker Hub, including the errors you will probably hit and how to fix each one.
Ruby e Rails estão entrando em uma nova fase. Com Ruby 4, Rails 8.1, Infraestrutura Zero, Hotwire, Vite, IA integrada e uma abordagem cada vez mais orientada à simplicidade operacional, o ecossistema deixa para trás a cultura da complexidade excessiva e reafirma a força do monolito moderno como uma escolha técnica eficiente, elegante e soberana.