Add jobs to a rails-sidekiq queue from node.js - ruby-on-rails-3

Question

I have 2 apps. 1 is a rails app and the other one is a node.js one. I'm using sidekiq in the Rails app. My node.js app will receive a huge amount of http posts (at least 20 req/sec) and I need those requests to be processed by the rails app.
The best way I found is to put those requests in a sidekiq queue and have Rails process them when it can. Is it possible to add a job to sidekiq from a different application? Is this done by talking directly to redis? The job will be very simple:
message_type
source
payload
These fields are present in the initial http post request.
I thought of using rails directly as the first entry-point but rails is not that good when it comes to loads of concurrent http requests.
Any ideas on how to add a job to a sidekiq queue from outside rails?

Answer 1

Apparently it's not that difficult. Here is the code I used:
npm install sidekiq --save
// Node.js
// app.js
const redis = require("redis")
const Sidekiq = require("sidekiq")
const client = redis.createClient(); // Will create a connection to redis DB 0 on 127.0.0.1
const sidekiq = new Sidekiq(client); // Will instantiate a sidekiq object which we use to add jobs
sidekiq.enqueue("MyProcessor", ["some-source", "TEST_MESSAGE_TYPE", "Some payload; More payload"], {
retry: false,
queue: "default"
}); // Will enqueue a job in the "default" queue with the 3 arguments
# Rails
# app/workers/my_processor.rb
class MyProcessor
include Sidekiq::Worker
sidekiq_options retry: false
def perform(source, message_type, payload)
logger.debug("Message is being processed: #{source} - #{message_type} - #{payload}")
end
end