How to dispatch an async job in Laravel 5.8 with Redis? - laravel

Question

I need to run a very time consuming task asynchronous in Laravel 5.8. This is the .env file
...
QUEUE_CONNECTION=sync
QUEUE_DRIVER=redis
...
The queue driver must be Redis because the website uses Laravel-Echo with redis and socket.io to broadcast messages and I can't change queue driver to database.
This is the job I created
<?php
namespace App\Jobs;
use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
use Illuminate\Queue\InteractsWithQueue;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Bus\Dispatchable;
class BroadcastRepeatJob implements ShouldQueue
{
use Dispatchable, InteractsWithQueue, Queueable, SerializesModels;
/**
* Create a new job instance.
*
* #return void
*/
public function __construct()
{
//
}
/**
* Execute the job.
*
* #return void
*/
public function handle()
{
sleep(30);
}
}
and this is the HomeController:
public function index()
{
BroadcastRepeatJob::dispatch()->onQueue("default");
dd(1);
...
}
and I also run the following artisan commands
php artisan queue:work
php artisan queue:listen
when I visit /index of HomeController I expect to see dd(1) immediately not after 30 seconds because the sleep(30) must be ran in a queue but this does not happen and I have to wait 30 seconds to see dd(1). How can I run the job in background asynchronous ?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Try switching your QUEUE_CONNECTION to redis rather than sync
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Queue Connections
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here you may configure the connection information for each server that
| is used by your application. A default configuration has been added
| for each back-end shipped with Laravel. You are free to add more.
|
| Drivers: "sync", "database", "beanstalkd", "sqs", "redis", "null"
|
*/
'connections' => [
'sync' => [
'driver' => 'sync',
],
'database' => [
'driver' => 'database',
'table' => 'jobs',
'queue' => 'default',
'retry_after' => 90,
],
'redis' => [
'driver' => 'redis',
'connection' => 'default',
'queue' => env('REDIS_QUEUE', 'default'),
'retry_after' => 90,
'block_for' => null,
],
],