Putting failed jobs on the failure queue.

rq/job.py

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ class Job(object):
             unpickled_obj = loads(pickle_data)
             assert isinstance(unpickled_obj, Job)
             return unpickled_obj
-        except (AssertionError, AttributeError, IndexError, TypeError):
+        except (AssertionError, AttributeError, IndexError, TypeError, KeyError):
             raise UnpickleError('Could not unpickle Job.', pickle_data)
 
     def __init__(self, func, *args, **kwargs):

rq/worker.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import sys
 import os
 import errno
+import datetime
 import random
 import time
 import procname
@@ -81,6 +82,7 @@ class Worker(object):
         self._horse_pid = 0
         self._stopped = False
         self.log = Logger('worker')
+        self.failure_queue = Queue('failure')
 
 
     def validate_queues(self):
@@ -253,13 +255,13 @@ class Worker(object):
                 try:
                     job = Queue.dequeue_any(self.queues, wait_for_job)
                 except UnpickleError as e:
-                    self.log.warning('*** Ignoring unpickleable data on %s.', e.queue)
+                    self.log.warning('*** Ignoring unpickleable data on %s.' % (e.queue.name,))
                     self.log.debug('Data follows:')
                     self.log.debug(e.raw_data)
                     self.log.debug('End of unreadable data.')
 
-                    q = Queue('failure')
+                    fq = self.failure_queue
-                    q._push(e.raw_data)
+                    fq._push(e.raw_data)
                     continue
 
                 if job is None:
@@ -313,9 +315,15 @@ class Worker(object):
         self.log.info(msg)
         try:
             rv = job.perform()
-        except Exception, e:
+        except Exception as e:
             rv = e
             self.log.exception(e)
+
+            fq = self.failure_queue
+            self.log.warning('Moving job to %s queue.' % (fq.name,))
+            job.ended_at = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
+            job.exc_info = e
+            fq._push(job.pickle())
         else:
             if rv is not None:
                 self.log.info('Job result = %s' % (rv,))

tests/test_worker.py

@@ -49,4 +49,21 @@ class TestWorker(RQTestCase):
 
         self.assertEquals(failure_q.count, 1)
 
+    def test_work_fails(self):
+        """Worker processes failing job."""
+        q = Queue()
+        failure_q = Queue('failure')
+
+        self.assertEquals(failure_q.count, 0)
+        self.assertEquals(q.count, 0)
+
+        q.enqueue(failing_job)
+
+        self.assertEquals(q.count, 1)
+        w = Worker([q])
+        w.work(burst=True)  # should silently pass
+        self.assertEquals(q.count, 0)
+
+        self.assertEquals(failure_q.count, 1)
+