How do I schedule recurring jobs in Active Job (Rails 4.2)?

Question

I found this Schedule one-time jobs in Rails but this only shows how schedule one-time. I am interested in scheduling a recurring job.

Delayed_job has this

Answer 1

If you want to delay the job execution to 10 minutes later, two options:

1. SomeJob.set(wait: 10.minutes).perform_later(record)

2. SomeJob.new(record).enqueue(wait: 10.minutes)

Delay to a specific moment from now use wait_until.

1. SomeJob.set(wait_until: Date.tomorrow.noon).perform_later(record)

2. SomeJob.new(record).enqueue(wait_until: Date.tomorrow.noon)

Details please refer to http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveJob/Base.html.

For recurring jobs, you just put SomeJob.perform_now(record) in a cronjob (whenever).

If you use Heroku, just put SomeJob.perform_now(record) in a scheduled rake task. Please read more about scheduled rake task here: Heroku scheduler.