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🔄 Active Job Continuations

Resumable Background Jobs for Zero-Downtime Deployments

Richard Piacentini

Project Lead: Richard Piacentini

Cheqs Global LTD

AI Research: Claude Sonnet 4.5

Suite Finalized: October 10, 2025

📝 Living Document - Updated until Rails 8.1 stable release

Rails 8.1 Feature

📋 Overview

Active Job Continuations enable background jobs to checkpoint their progress and resume from where they left off after interruptions.

Key Benefits

  • ♻️ Automatic Resume - Jobs continue from last checkpoint after interruptions
  • 💰 50% Cost Reduction - Eliminate re-processing costs from failed jobs
  • 🚀 Zero-Downtime Deploys - Deploy without waiting for jobs to finish
  • 🛡️ Data Integrity - Transactions are preserved across interruptions

See the full technical documentation for complete implementation patterns, checkpoint strategies, monitoring, debugging, and deployment integration guides.