ActiveRecord::Retriable

Retry your ActiveRecord transactions. Inspired by Sequel's way of doing it.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'activerecord-retriable'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install activerecord-retriable

Retry if ActiveRecord::TransactionRollbackError is raised:

ActiveRecord::Base.transaction(retry_on: ActiveRecord::TransactionRollbackError) do
  ...
end

Retry if ActiveRecord::TransactionRollbackError or ActiveRecord::LockWaitTimeout are raised:

ActiveRecord::Base.transaction(retry_on: [ActiveRecord::TransactionRollbackError,
                                          ActiveRecord::LockWaitTimeout]) do
  ...
end

By default we retry once. You can change the default number of retries by changing:

Rails.configuration.active_record.default_transaction_retries

Or you can override the default value locally:

ActiveRecord::Base.transaction(retry_on: ActiveRecord::TransactionRollbackError
                               num_retries: 3) do
  ...
end

To retry indefinitely, set num_retries: to nil. Be careful when doing that!

To perform an action before retrying, pass an object that responds to #call in before_retry::

before_retry = ->(num_retries, exception) do
  puts "retrying transaction for the #{num_retries.ordinalize} time: #{exception}"
end

ActiveRecord::Base.transaction(retry_on: ActiveRecord::TransactionRollbackError
                               before_retry: before_retry) do
  ...
end

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also 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, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/jcmfernandes/activerecord-retriable. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the code of conduct.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Everyone interacting in the ActiveRecord::Retriable project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.

João Fernandes joao.fernandes@ist.utl.pt