Per-job Overrides for Active Job's DelayedJobAdapter

Delayed Job allows you to override various settings on a per-job basis (see https://github.com/collectiveidea/delayed_job#custom-jobs). I really missed this feature when I switched to using Active Job, so I wrote this gem, which allows max_attempts, destroy_failed_jobs?, reschedule_at, and max_run_time to be defined within your (active) job - just like Delayed Job. See Usage section below for an example.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'activejob_dj_overrides'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install activejob_dj_overrides

class YourJob < ActiveJob::Base
  queue_as :default

  def perform(*args)
    # Do something later
    # sleep 1.minute # tests max_run_time
    # nil > 0 # tests max_attempts and destroy_failed_jobs?
  end

  def max_attempts
    1 # default is 25
  end

  def destroy_failed_jobs?
    false # default is true
  end

  def max_run_time
    5 # default is 4.hours
  end

  def reschedule_at(current_time, attempts)
    current_time + 5.seconds # default is current_time + (attempts**4) + 5
  end
end

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release to create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/activejob_dj_overrides/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request