In most of our apps, we probably need to execute few background tasks more often, like every 10 minutes, once a week, etc. For scheduling these jobs, we need a scheduler that can re-run these tasks on specified intervals. There are few schedulers like whenever, resque-scheduler, rufus-scheduler, etc that can do the job. However, these gems are not compatible Sidekiq and with apps deployed on Heroku. There are 2 ways to make it work on Heroku. 1/ Using Heroku Scheduler addon. Steps: i) Create sidekiq job. ii) Create a rake task that will triggers that worker. iii) In Heroku Scheduler