I don't really care for running Resque in dev or test environments.

job.rb

class Job
  LAZY_ENVIRONMENTS = %w(development test)

  # Add a job to the queue. If we're currently running in any of the
  # environments listed in +LAZY_ENVIRONMENTS+ then it automatically performs
  # the job.
  def self.enqueue(*args)
    if LAZY_ENVIRONMENTS.include? Rails.env
      Rails.logger.debug "Performing job instead of enqueuing: #{name}"
      perform(*args)
    else
      Resque.enqueue self, *args
    end
  end
end

class SomeOtherJob < Job
  @queue = :blah

  def self.perform(*args)
    p args
  end
end

SomeOtherJob.enqueue(1, 2, 3)

This of course can mean some job will result in a timeout when you have jobs that process A LOT of things, but it's acceptable for 99.99% of the cases :)