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@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ 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 ActionMailer's #deliver_later functionality
+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
+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
@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ Set the queue adapter for Active Job:
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.
+documentation at
+[ActiveJob::QueueAdapters](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveJob/QueueAdapters.html).
Declare a job like so:
@@ -43,7 +44,7 @@ end
Enqueue a job like so:
```ruby
-MyJob.perform_later record # Enqueue a job to be performed as soon the queueing system is free.
+MyJob.perform_later record # Enqueue a job to be performed as soon as the queueing system is free.
```
```ruby
@@ -101,7 +102,7 @@ see the API Documentation for [ActiveJob::QueueAdapters](http://api.rubyonrails.
The latest version of Active Job can be installed with RubyGems:
```
- % [sudo] gem install activejob
+ % gem install activejob
```
Source code can be downloaded as part of the Rails project on GitHub
@@ -110,14 +111,14 @@ Source code can be downloaded as part of the Rails project on GitHub
## License
-ActiveJob is released under the MIT license:
+Active Job is released under the MIT license:
* http://www.opensource.org/licenses/MIT
## Support
-API documentation is at
+API documentation is at:
* http://api.rubyonrails.org
@@ -128,5 +129,3 @@ Bug reports can be filed for the Ruby on Rails project here:
Feature requests should be discussed on the rails-core mailing list here:
* https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/rubyonrails-core
-
-