Learn Rails 5.2: Accelerated Web Development with Ruby on Rails

© Stefan Wintermeyer 2018

Stefan WintermeyerLearn Rails 5.2https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3489-1_10

10. Active Job

Stefan Wintermeyer¹ 

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Bochum, Germany

 

Sometimes a specific piece of code takes a long time to run but doesn’t need to run right away. An example is sending an e-mail after creating an order at the end of an online shopping workflow. It can take a long time to send an e-mail, but you don’t want your user to wait for that to happen within the controller. It makes more sense to use a queueing mechanism for these tasks.

Active Job provides such a queueing system. You can create jobs that are processed asynchronously by the active job.

Create a New Job

The quickest way to create a new job is to use the job generator. Let’s create an ...