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ruby-on-rails sidekiq activejob ruby

I just started working with After trying multiple solutions online, I still can't figure this out... I'm stuck on something that should probably be simple. Quick question that's been bugging me - I'm currently working on a Rails 7.1 application where I've set up Sidekiq for background job processing... I've implemented a custom behavior handling mechanism within my job that should log errors and send notifications if a job fails. However, I noticed that failed jobs are not retrying as expected. Instead of retrying, they simply get marked as 'failed' in the Sidekiq dashboard. I've configured Sidekiq to retry jobs on failure, but it seems my custom behavior handling is interfering with that functionality. Here's what my job looks like: ```ruby class MyJob < ApplicationJob queue_as :default retry_on StandardError, wait: 5.minutes, attempts: 3 def perform(*args) # Some processing logic raise StandardError, 'Something went wrong!' if args.empty? rescue StandardError => e log_error(e) notify_admin(e) # Here is where I suspect the scenario lies end private def log_error(behavior) Rails.logger.behavior "Job failed: #{behavior.message}" end def notify_admin(behavior) # Logic to send notification end end ``` I've tried removing the `rescue` clause to see if that allows the retry mechanism to kick in, but that causes my application to crash on the first exception instead. The Sidekiq configuration for retries looks like this: ```yaml :concurrency: 5 :queues: - default :retry: max: 25 ``` In looking through the logs, I found entries indicating that the job failed, and the log_error method is being called, but after that, it doesn't seem to attempt a retry. Is there a way to keep my custom behavior handling while ensuring that Sidekiq still retries the jobs? Any insights would be appreciated! Thanks in advance! This is for a CLI tool running on Ubuntu 20.04. I'd really appreciate any guidance on this. Hoping someone can shed some light on this. I'm working on a web app that needs to handle this. Any help would be greatly appreciated!