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diff --git a/devel/rubygem-activejob-gitlab/pkg-descr b/devel/rubygem-activejob-gitlab/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..d618ca834e3c --- /dev/null +++ b/devel/rubygem-activejob-gitlab/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +Active Job is a framework for declaring jobs and making them run on a variety of +queuing backends. These jobs can be everything from regularly scheduled +clean-ups, to billing charges, to mailings -- anything that can be chopped up +into small units of work and run in parallel. + +It also serves as the backend for Action Mailer's #deliver_later functionality +that makes it easy to turn any mailing into a job for running later. That's one +of the most common jobs in a modern web application: sending emails outside the +request-response cycle, so the user doesn't have to wait on it. + +The main point is to ensure that all Rails apps will have a job infrastructure +in place, even if it's in the form of an "immediate runner". We can then have +framework features and other gems build on top of that, without having to worry +about API differences between Delayed Job and Resque. Picking your queuing +backend becomes more of an operational concern, then. And you'll be able to +switch between them without having to rewrite your jobs. |