An easy to use adapter for Rails ActiveJob for performing background jobs through AWS SQS. This can be used to push the jobs to AWS SQS queue and to execute the jobs from the SQS queue.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'active_job_sqs_adapter'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install active_job_sqs_adapter

To push the jobs to SQS queue just set the ActiveJob queue adapter as ActiveJobSqsAdapter either in config/application.rb or in the specific environment config file:

class Application < Rails::Application
  # ...
  config.active_job.queue_adapter = ActiveJobSqsAdapter
end

Create a job using rails generator:

rails generate job SqsExampleJob

The generator will create the job in /app/jobs/sqs_example_job.rb as below:

class SqsExampleJob < ActiveJob::Base
  # Set the Queue as Default
  queue_as :default
  
  def perform(*args)
    # Perform Job
  end
end

The above job(SqsExampleJob) will use default queue.

For more about specifying the queue to which the jobs needs to be pushed in the SQS see: active_job_basics#queues

Just run the job as usual and and ActiveJobSqsAdapter with handle the rest.

SqsExampleJob.perform_later(args)

If you wish to perform jobs immediately and not in background just use perform_now instead of perform_later

SqsExampleJob.perform_now(args)

Set delay for the job to perform:

SqsExampleJob.set(wait: 10.minutes).perform_later(args)

Note: The maximum delay time can be set for a job is 15 minutes because of the restriction in AWS SQS.

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

You can just:

1. Fork it
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 new Pull Request

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