ActiveJob::Status

Simple monitoring status for ActiveJob, independent of your queuing backend or cache storage.

Installation

gem install activejob-status

bundle add activejob-status

Dependencies

In future releases, ActiveJob::Status won't support EOL versions of ActiveJob & ActiveSupport.

Version 1.x requires ActiveSupport >= 6.0

If you're still using older Rails version, see #24.

Configuration

Cache Store

By default, ActiveJob::Status use the Rails.cache to store data. You can use any compatible ActiveSupport::Cache::Store you want (memory, memcache, redis, ..) or any storage responding to read/write/delete

Note : Rails.cache defaults to ActiveSupport::Cache::NullStore which will result in empty status. Setting a cache store for ActiveJob::Status is therefore mandatory.

You can set your own store:

# config/initializers/activejob_status.rb

# Use an alternative cache store:
#   ActiveJob::Status.store = :file_store, "/path/to/cache/directory"
#   ActiveJob::Status.store = :redis_cache_store, { url: ENV['REDIS_URL'] }
#   ActiveJob::Status.store = :mem_cache_store
#
# You should avoid using cache store that are not shared between web and background processes
# (ex: :memory_store).
#
if Rails.cache.is_a?(ActiveSupport::Cache::NullStore)
  ActiveJob::Status.store = :mem_cache_store
end

Select data to store by default

By default, ActiveJob::Status already stores a status key at each step of a job's life cycle.
To understand what data are stored and what data to add, see Data stored by default.

Warning : adding more data means more memory consumed.
For example, adding :serialized_job might require as much memory for caching as your use for your job backend.

# config/initializers/activejob_status.rb

# Select what data you want to store.
# Available options are: :status, :serialized_job, :exception
# Default is [:status]
#
ActiveJob::Status.options = { includes: %i[status exception] }

Expiration time

Because ActiveJob::Status relies on cache store, all statuses come with an expiration time.
It's set to 1 hour by default.

You can set a longer expiration:

# config/initializers/activejob_status.rb

# Set your own status expiration time:
# Default is 1 hour.
#
ActiveJob::Status.options = { expires_in: 30.days.to_i }

Throttling

Depending on the cache storage latency, updating a status too often can cause bottlenecks.
To narrow this effect, you can force a time interval between each updates:

# config/initializers/activejob_status.rb

# Apply a time interval in seconds between every status updates.
# Default is 0 - no throttling mechanism
#
ActiveJob::Status.options = { throttle_interval: 0.1 }

Usage

Updating status

Include the ActiveJob::Status module in your jobs.

class MyJob < ActiveJob::Base
  include ActiveJob::Status
end

The module introduces two methods:

progress to implement a progress status

class MyJob < ActiveJob::Base
  include ActiveJob::Status

  def perform
    progress.total = 1000

    1000.time do
      # ...do something...
      progress.increment
    end
  end
end

status to directly read/update status

class MyJob < ActiveJob::Base
  include ActiveJob::Status

  def perform
    status[:step] = "A"

    # ...do something...

    status[:step]   = "B"
    status[:result] = "...."
  end
end

You can combine both to update status and progress in a single call.

class MyJob < ActiveJob::Base
  include ActiveJob::Status

  def perform
    status.update(step: "A", total: 100)
    
    100.times do
      # ...do something...
      progress.increment
    end

    # Reset the progress for the next step
    status.update(step: "B", total: 50, progress: 0)

    50.times do
      # ...do something...
      progress.increment
    end
  end
end

Throttling mechanism (see configuration) is applied when doing:

progress.increment
progress.decrement
status.update(foo: 'bar')

Throttling mechanism is not applied when doing:

progress.total    = 100
progress.progress = 0
progress.finish
status[:foo]      = 'bar'
status.update({ foo: 'bar' }, force: true)

Data stored by default

By default, ActiveJob::Status stores a status key.
You can add more information about the job using includes config.

Setting ActiveJob::Status.options = { includes: %i[status] } is equivalent to:

before_enqueue { |job| job.status[:status] = :queued }
before_perform { |job| job.status[:status] = :working }
after_perform { |job| job.status[:status] = :completed }

rescue_from(Exception) do |e|
  status[:status] = :failed
  raise e
end

Setting ActiveJob::Status.options = { includes: %i[serialized_job] } is equivalent to:

before_enqueue { |job| job.status[:serialized_job] = job.serialize }

Setting ActiveJob::Status.options = { includes: %i[exception] } is equivalent to:

rescue_from(Exception) do |e|
  status[:exception] = { class: e.class, message: e.message }
  raise e
end

Reading status

Check the status of a job

job    = MyJob.perform_later
status = ActiveJob::Status.get(job)
# => { status: :queued }

You can also use the job_id

status = ActiveJob::Status.get('d11b64e6-8631-4118-ae76-e19376769171')
# => { status: :queued }

Follow the progression of your job

loop do
  puts status
  break if status.completed?
end

# => { status: :queued }
# => { status: :working, progress: 0, total: 100, step: "A" }
# => { status: :working, progress: 60, total: 100, step: "A" }
# => { status: :working, progress: 90, total: 100, step: "A" }
# => { status: :working, progress: 0, total: 50, step: "B" }
# => { status: :completed, progress: 50, total: 50, step: "B" }

The status provides you getters:

status.status     # => "working"
status.queued?    # => false
status.working?   # => true
status.completed? # => false
status.failed?    # => false
status.progress   # => 0.5 (progress / total)
status[:step]     # => "A"

... until it's completed

status.status     # => "completed"
status.completed? # => true
status.progress   # => 1

Serializing status to JSON

Within a controller, you can serialize a status to JSON:

class JobsController
  def show
    status = ActiveJob::Status.get(params[:id])
    render json: status.to_json
  end
end

GET /jobs/status/d11b64e6-8631-4118-ae76-e19376769171.json

{
  "status":   "working",
  "progress": 50
  "total":    100,
  "step":     "A"
}

Setting options per job

You can override default options per job:

class MyJob < ActiveJob::Base
  include ActiveJob::Status

  def status
    @status ||= ActiveJob::Status::Status.new(self,
      expires_in: 3.days,
      throttle_interval: 0.5,
      includes: %i[status serialized_job])
  end

  def perform
    ...
  end
end