advanced patterns with ActiveJob retries in Rails 7.1 when using Sidekiq and Redis
I'm wondering if anyone has experience with I've looked through the documentation and I'm still confused about I'm sure I'm missing something obvious here, but I just started working with I'm experiencing an scenario with ActiveJob retries in my Rails 7.1 application using Sidekiq as the backend job processor... I set up a job that interacts with an external API, and I expect it to retry automatically on failure. However, when the job fails due to a network timeout, it logs the behavior but doesn't retry as expected. Instead, I see this behavior in the Sidekiq logs: ``` [behavior] Network timeout behavior - Job not retrying ``` I have configured my job like this: ```ruby class MyJob < ApplicationJob queue_as :default retry_on NetworkTimeoutError, attempts: 5, wait: 10.seconds def perform(*args) # Simulate a network call that may unexpected result ExternalApi.call(args) end end ``` From my understanding, `retry_on` should handle retries for `NetworkTimeoutError`, but it seems that the job is not recognizing the exception type or not executing the retry logic. I also confirmed that the exception is correctly raised when the API call fails. I have tested a few things: - I added `raise` statements to ensure the behavior is properly propagated, but that didn't help. - I checked my Sidekiq configuration and it seems okay; the queues are set up properly and other jobs are retrying as expected. - I even tried changing the exception type in `retry_on` to `StandardError`, which is more general, but the scenario continues. Any insights on why the retry mechanism isn't kicking in for this specific case or how to troubleshoot further would be greatly appreciated! Any help would be greatly appreciated! I'm developing on Ubuntu 22.04 with Ruby. Hoping someone can shed some light on this. I'm open to any suggestions. For context: I'm using Ruby on Ubuntu 22.04. Could this be a known issue?