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ruby rails sidekiq activerecord background-jobs Ruby

This might be a silly question, but I'm currently facing an issue where my `ActiveSupport::Notifications` are not being triggered as expected within a background job processed by Sidekiq in my Ruby on Rails 7.1 application. I've set up a notification to track when a user action is completed, but it seems that the event is being missed in the context of the job execution. Here's the relevant code snippet that sets up the notification: ```ruby # app/services/user_action_service.rb class UserActionService def perform_action(user) ActiveSupport::Notifications.instrument('user.action.completed', user: user) do # Simulate some work sleep(1) # Simulating a long-running task user.update(status: 'completed') end end end ``` And here’s how I enqueue the job with Sidekiq: ```ruby # app/jobs/user_action_job.rb class UserActionJob include Sidekiq::Worker def perform(user_id) user = User.find(user_id) UserActionService.new.perform_action(user) end end ``` I also have a listener set up to respond to the notification: ```ruby # config/initializers/notification_listener.rb ActiveSupport::Notifications.subscribe('user.action.completed') do |*args| event = ActiveSupport::Notifications::Event.new(*args) Rails.logger.info "User action completed for: #{event.payload[:user].id}" end ``` When running this code in development, I can see that the notification is fired properly if I call `UserActionService.perform_action` directly in a controller. However, when I enqueue `UserActionJob` with `UserActionJob.perform_async(user.id)`, the listener doesn't trigger at all. I suspect this might be due to the job being executed in a different thread or process where the notification listener is not available. I've also made sure that the listener is loaded before the job is processed. Has anyone else encountered this issue or can offer any insight into why `ActiveSupport::Notifications` wouldn’t work as expected in a Sidekiq background job? Any help would be appreciated! My development environment is macOS. How would you solve this? I've been using Ruby for about a year now. What's the best practice here?