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Active Job is a framework for declaring jobs and making them run on a variety of
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queuing backends. These jobs can be everything from regularly scheduled
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clean-ups, to billing charges, to 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 Action Mailer's #deliver_later functionality
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that makes it easy to turn any mailing into a job for running later. That's one
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of the most common jobs in a modern web application: sending emails outside of
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the request-response cycle, so the user doesn't have to wait on it.
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The main point is to ensure that all Rails apps will have a job infrastructure
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in place, even if it's in the form of an "immediate runner". We can then have
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framework features and other gems build on top of that, without having to worry
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about API differences between Delayed Job and Resque. Picking your queuing
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backend becomes more of an operational concern, then. And you'll be able to
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switch between them without having to rewrite your jobs.
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WWW: https://rubyonrails.org/
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WWW: https://github.com/rails/rails/tree/master/activejob
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