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+# Active Job -- Make work happen later
+
+Active Job is a framework for declaring jobs and making them run on a variety
+of queueing backends. These jobs can be everything from regularly scheduled
+clean-ups, to billing charges, to mailings. Anything that can be chopped up into
+small units of work and run in parallel, really.
+
+It also serves as the backend for Action Mailer's #deliver_later functionality
+that makes it easy to turn any mailing into a job for running later. That's
+one of the most common jobs in a modern web application: Sending emails outside
+of the request-response cycle, so the user doesn't have to wait on it.
+
+The main point is to ensure that all Rails apps will have a job infrastructure
+in place, even if it's in the form of an "immediate runner". We can then have
+framework features and other gems build on top of that, without having to worry
+about API differences between Delayed Job and Resque. Picking your queuing
+backend becomes more of an operational concern, then. And you'll be able to
+switch between them without having to rewrite your jobs.
+
+
+## Usage
+
+Set the queue adapter for Active Job:
+
+``` ruby
+ActiveJob::Base.queue_adapter = :inline # default queue adapter
+```
+Note: To learn how to use your preferred queueing backend see its adapter
+documentation at
+[ActiveJob::QueueAdapters](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveJob/QueueAdapters.html).
+
+Declare a job like so:
+
+```ruby
+class MyJob < ActiveJob::Base
+  queue_as :my_jobs
+
+  def perform(record)
+    record.do_work
+  end
+end
+```
+
+Enqueue a job like so:
+
+```ruby
+MyJob.perform_later record  # Enqueue a job to be performed as soon the queueing system is free.
+```
+
+```ruby
+MyJob.set(wait_until: Date.tomorrow.noon).perform_later(record)  # Enqueue a job to be performed tomorrow at noon.
+```
+
+```ruby
+MyJob.set(wait: 1.week).perform_later(record) # Enqueue a job to be performed 1 week from now.
+```
+
+That's it!
+
+
+## GlobalID support
+
+Active Job supports [GlobalID serialization](https://github.com/rails/globalid/) for parameters. This makes it possible
+to pass live Active Record objects to your job instead of class/id pairs, which
+you then have to manually deserialize. Before, jobs would look like this:
+
+```ruby
+class TrashableCleanupJob
+  def perform(trashable_class, trashable_id, depth)
+    trashable = trashable_class.constantize.find(trashable_id)
+    trashable.cleanup(depth)
+  end
+end
+```
+
+Now you can simply do:
+
+```ruby
+class TrashableCleanupJob
+  def perform(trashable, depth)
+    trashable.cleanup(depth)
+  end
+end
+```
+
+This works with any class that mixes in GlobalID::Identification, which
+by default has been mixed into Active Record classes.
+
+
+## Supported queueing systems
+
+Active Job has built-in adapters for multiple queueing backends (Sidekiq,
+Resque, Delayed Job and others). To get an up-to-date list of the adapters
+see the API Documentation for [ActiveJob::QueueAdapters](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveJob/QueueAdapters.html).
+
+## Auxiliary gems
+
+* [activejob-stats](https://github.com/seuros/activejob-stats)
+
+## Download and installation
+
+The latest version of Active Job can be installed with RubyGems:
+
+```
+  % [sudo] gem install activejob
+```
+
+Source code can be downloaded as part of the Rails project on GitHub
+
+* https://github.com/rails/rails/tree/master/activejob
+
+## License
+
+Active Job is released under the MIT license:
+
+* http://www.opensource.org/licenses/MIT
+
+
+## Support
+
+API documentation is at
+
+* http://api.rubyonrails.org
+
+Bug reports can be filed for the Ruby on Rails project here:
+
+* https://github.com/rails/rails/issues
+
+Feature requests should be discussed on the rails-core mailing list here:
+
+* https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/rubyonrails-core