Sidekiq::Retries

This subclasses the stock Sidekiq retries middleware so that you can

• retry a job that has retries disabled (retry: 0 or retry: false)
• abort (don't retry) a job that will otherwise retry by default

but still have the job raise an exception so that you can observe that the job failed (by checking the logs, using sidekiq-failures, etc.).

Don't use this as a replacement for making your jobs idempotent!

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'sidekiq-retries'

Usage

class NoRetryJob
  include Sidekiq::Worker
  sidekiq_options retry: false  # or retry: 0

  def perform
    # retry this job when it otherwise would not
    raise Sidekiq::Retries::Retry.new(RuntimeError.new('whatever happened'))        
  end
end

class RetryJob
  include Sidekiq::Worker
  sidekiq_options retry: 25

  def perform                        
    # don't retry this particular job
    raise Sidekiq::Retries::Fail.new(RuntimeError.new('whatever happened'))
  end
end

Contributing

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