Active Job

Introduction

Active Job is a framework help developers writing codes and run them on the background automatically under different scenarios. Jobs can vary from schedule newsletter, follow-up emails to database housekeeping. It’s a interface that adapts different queueing backends like Backburner[1], Delayed Job[2], Qu[3] and so on. [4] Overall, Active Job is a interface which you can work with common queues.

In Rails, the concept of streaming first appeared in [5], and is further optimized in Rails 4.

Active Job adapters[6]

• Backburner[7]
• Delayed Job[8]
• Qu[9]
• Que[10]
• queue_classic[11]
• Resque 1.x[12]
• Sidekiq[13]
• Sneakers[14]
• Sucker Punch[15]
• Active Job Async Job
• Active Job Inline[16]