sidekiq-symbols gives you symbol keys for your perform method.

Caveats

I have not tested this in a production environment! The 0.x version is there for a reason!

To use

Add

include Sidekiq::Symbols

to your Sidekiq job class.

class SomeJob
  include Sidekiq::Worker
  include Sidekiq::Symbols

  # ...
end

What it does

Because Sidekiq round-trips job arguments through JSON serialization-deserialization, a hash argument passed to perform_async which uses symbols won't actually be fetchable with symbol keys, because

perform_async(x: 1)

leads to when it gets pulled out of Redis.

perform("x" => 1)

sidekiq-symbols forces perform to use symbols for all its keys, so that this works:

class SomeJob
  include Sidekiq::Worker
  include Sidekiq::Symbols

  def perform(arg, opts = {})
    opts[:x] # this works
  end
end

SomeJob.perform_async("foo", x: 1)

Note that perform_async("foo", "x" => 1) here would leave opts["x"] == nil since you must use opts[:x].

Keyword arguments

Ruby's keyword arguments are essentially an extension of using a symbol-keyed hash argument, so sidekiq-symbols also enables keyword arguments:

class SomeJob
  include Sidekiq::Worker
  include Sidekiq::Symbols

  def perform(x: 1, y: 2)
    # x and y are availalbe
  end
end