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Usually users extends tests classes doing something like:
ActionView::TestCase.include MyCustomTestHelpers
This is bad because it will load the ActionView::TestCase right aways
and this will load ActionController::Base making its on_load hooks to
execute early than it should.
One way to fix this is using the on_load hooks of the components like:
ActiveSupport.on_load(:action_view) do
ActionView::TestCase.include MyCustomTestHelpers
end
The problem with this approach is that the test extension will be only
load when ActionView::Base is loaded and this may happen too late in the
test.
To fix this we are adding hooks to people extend the test classes that
will be loaded exactly when the test classes are needed.
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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
To learn how to use your preferred queueing backend see its adapter documentation at ActiveJob::QueueAdapters.
Declare a job like so:
class MyJob < ActiveJob::Base
queue_as :my_jobs
def perform(record)
record.do_work
end
end
Enqueue a job like so:
MyJob.perform_later record # Enqueue a job to be performed as soon as the queueing system is free.
MyJob.set(wait_until: Date.tomorrow.noon).perform_later(record) # Enqueue a job to be performed tomorrow at noon.
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 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:
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:
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.
Auxiliary gems
Download and installation
The latest version of Active Job can be installed with RubyGems:
$ gem install activejob
Source code can be downloaded as part of the Rails project on GitHub
License
Active Job is released under the MIT license:
Support
API documentation is at:
Bug reports can be filed for the Ruby on Rails project here:
Feature requests should be discussed on the rails-core mailing list here: