active job framework in rails

Active Job: How Does It Work?

In this article, I explain the journey of a background job, from its creation to execution. We will learn how it’s configured and enqueued, and how an adapter invokes it. We will also see the different ways to configure a job.

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Active Job: How does it work?
Do you want to understand how Active Job works behind the scenes? Reading and understanding the source code is one of the best ways to learn a framework (or anything). This post breaks it all down for you by tracing the journey of a Rails background job, from its creation to execution.