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+++ b/guides/source/active_job_basics.md
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+**DO NOT READ THIS FILE ON GITHUB, GUIDES ARE PUBLISHED ON http://guides.rubyonrails.org.**
+
Active Job Basics
=================
@@ -23,7 +25,7 @@ clean-ups, to billing charges, to mailings. Anything that can be chopped up
into small units of work and run in parallel, really.
-The Purpose of the Active Job
+The Purpose of Active Job
-----------------------------
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
@@ -41,10 +43,12 @@ This section will provide a step-by-step guide to creating a job and enqueuing i
### Create the Job
Active Job provides a Rails generator to create jobs. The following will create a
-job in `app/jobs`:
+job in `app/jobs` (with an attached test case under `test/jobs`):
```bash
$ bin/rails generate job guests_cleanup
+invoke test_unit
+create test/jobs/guests_cleanup_job_test.rb
create app/jobs/guests_cleanup_job.rb
```
@@ -52,12 +56,8 @@ You can also create a job that will run on a specific queue:
```bash
$ bin/rails generate job guests_cleanup --queue urgent
-create app/jobs/guests_cleanup_job.rb
```
-As you can see, you can generate jobs just like you use other generators with
-Rails.
-
If you don't want to use a generator, you could create your own file inside of
`app/jobs`, just make sure that it inherits from `ActiveJob::Base`.
@@ -78,15 +78,19 @@ end
Enqueue a job like so:
```ruby
-MyJob.perform_later record # Enqueue a job to be performed as soon the queueing system is free.
+# Enqueue a job to be performed as soon the queueing system is
+# free.
+MyJob.perform_later record
```
```ruby
-MyJob.set(wait_until: Date.tomorrow.noon).perform_later(record) # Enqueue a job to be performed tomorrow at noon.
+# Enqueue a job to be performed tomorrow at noon.
+MyJob.set(wait_until: Date.tomorrow.noon).perform_later(record)
```
```ruby
-MyJob.set(wait: 1.week).perform_later(record) # Enqueue a job to be performed 1 week from now.
+# Enqueue a job to be performed 1 week from now.
+MyJob.set(wait: 1.week).perform_later(record)
```
That's it!
@@ -103,14 +107,20 @@ 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).
-### Changing the Backend
+### Setting the Backend
-You can easily change your queueing backend:
+You can easily set your queueing backend:
```ruby
-# be sure to have the adapter gem in your Gemfile and follow the adapter specific
-# installation and deployment instructions
-Rails.application.config.active_job.queue_adapter = :sidekiq
+# config/application.rb
+module YourApp
+ class Application < Rails::Application
+ # Be sure to have the adapter's gem in your Gemfile
+ # and follow the adapter's specific installation
+ # and deployment instructions.
+ config.active_job.queue_adapter = :sidekiq
+ end
+end
```
@@ -145,19 +155,42 @@ class GuestsCleanupJob < ActiveJob::Base
end
# Now your job will run on queue production_low_priority on your
-# production environment and on beta_low_priority on your beta
-# environment
+# production environment and on staging_low_priority
+# on your staging environment
+```
+
+The default queue name prefix delimiter is '\_'. This can be changed by setting
+`config.active_job.queue_name_delimiter` in `application.rb`:
+
+```ruby
+# config/application.rb
+module YourApp
+ class Application < Rails::Application
+ config.active_job.queue_name_prefix = Rails.env
+ config.active_job.queue_name_delimiter = '.'
+ end
+end
+
+# app/jobs/guests_cleanup.rb
+class GuestsCleanupJob < ActiveJob::Base
+ queue_as :low_priority
+ #....
+end
+
+# Now your job will run on queue production.low_priority on your
+# production environment and on staging.low_priority
+# on your staging environment
```
-If you want more control on what queue a job will be run you can pass a :queue
-option to #set:
+If you want more control on what queue a job will be run you can pass a `:queue`
+option to `#set`:
```ruby
MyJob.set(queue: :another_queue).perform_later(record)
```
-To control the queue from the job level you can pass a block to queue_as. The
-block will be executed in the job context (so you can access self.arguments)
+To control the queue from the job level you can pass a block to `#queue_as`. The
+block will be executed in the job context (so you can access `self.arguments`)
and you must return the queue name:
```ruby
@@ -179,7 +212,6 @@ end
ProcessVideoJob.perform_later(Video.last)
```
-
NOTE: Make sure your queueing backend "listens" on your queue name. For some
backends you need to specify the queues to listen to.
@@ -187,8 +219,8 @@ backends you need to specify the queues to listen to.
Callbacks
---------
-Active Job provides hooks during the lifecycle of a job. Callbacks allow you to
-trigger logic during the lifecycle of a job.
+Active Job provides hooks during the life cycle of a job. Callbacks allow you to
+trigger logic during the life cycle of a job.
### Available callbacks
@@ -222,7 +254,7 @@ end
```
-ActionMailer
+Action Mailer
------------
One of the most common jobs in a modern web application is sending emails outside
@@ -240,12 +272,13 @@ UserMailer.welcome(@user).deliver_later
GlobalID
--------
+
Active Job supports 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
+class TrashableCleanupJob < ActiveJob::Base
def perform(trashable_class, trashable_id, depth)
trashable = trashable_class.constantize.find(trashable_id)
trashable.cleanup(depth)
@@ -256,15 +289,15 @@ end
Now you can simply do:
```ruby
-class TrashableCleanupJob
+class TrashableCleanupJob < ActiveJob::Base
def perform(trashable, depth)
trashable.cleanup(depth)
end
end
```
-This works with any class that mixes in `ActiveModel::GlobalIdentification`, which
-by default has been mixed into Active Model classes.
+This works with any class that mixes in `GlobalID::Identification`, which
+by default has been mixed into Active Record classes.
Exceptions
@@ -274,7 +307,6 @@ Active Job provides a way to catch exceptions raised during the execution of the
job:
```ruby
-
class GuestsCleanupJob < ActiveJob::Base
queue_as :default