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= Active Job -- Make work happen later
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Active Job is a framework for declaring jobs and making them run on a variety
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of queueing backends. These jobs can be everything from regularly scheduled
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clean-ups, billing charges, or mailings. Anything that can be chopped up into
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small units of work and run in parallel, really.
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It also serves as the backend for ActionMailer's #deliver_later functionality
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that makes it easy to turn any mailing into a job for running later. That's
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one of the most common jobs in a modern web application: Sending emails outside
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of the request-response cycle, so the user doesn't have to wait on it.
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== Under development as a gem, targeted for Rails inclusion
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Active Job is currently being developed in a separate repository until it's
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ready to be merged in with Rails. The current plan is to have Active Job
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be part of the Rails 4.2 release, but plans may change depending on when
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this framework stabilizes and feels ready.
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== Download and installation
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The latest version of Active Job can be installed with RubyGems:
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% [sudo] gem install activejob
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Source code can be downloaded as part of the Rails project on GitHub
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* https://github.com/rails/activejob
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== License
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Active Job is released under the MIT license:
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* http://www.opensource.org/licenses/MIT
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