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RailsActiveJob

Let say you have perform_later job that is calling another perform_later job and you want to test the end result.

class Job1 < AciveJob::Base
  def perform(foo:)
    bar = "#{foo}bar"
    Job2.perform_late(bar: bar)
  end
end

class Job2 < AciveJob::Base
  def perform(bar:)
    Httparty.post("http://myserver", bar)
  end
end

require 'spec_helper'
RSpec.describe Job1 do
  it do
    expect(Httparty).to receive(:post).with("http://myserver", "mybar")
    Job1.new.perform("my")
  end
end

Even if you set the queuing adapter to beActiveJob::Base.queue_adapter = :test the second call may not be executed as ActiveJob is holding second call for assertion tests

Global setting solution is described at the bottom section of this article

What you can do is wrap the call in build in ActiveJob::TestHelper module method perform_enqueued_jobs block:

require 'spec_helper'
RSpec.describe Job1 do
  include ActiveJob::TestHelper

  it do
    perform_enqueued_jobs do
      Job1.new.perform("my")
    end
  end
end

Or if you don’t want to polute your tests with unecesarry methods:

require 'spec_helper'

module MyTest
  class Jobs
    include ActiveJob::TestHelper
  end

  def self.jobs
    @jobs ||= Jobs.new
  end
end

RSpec.describe Job1 do
  it do
    MyTest.jobs.perform_enqueued_jobs do
      Job1.new.perform("my")
    end
  end
end

Global setting

This will ensure all the tests will execute Jobs imidietly (not queue)

In config/enviroments/test.rb :

# config/enviroments/test.rb

Rails.application.configure do
  # ...
  config.active_job.queue_adapter = :inline
  # ...
end

… or

# spec/rails_helper.rb or config/enviroments/test.rb
Rails.application.config.active_job.queue_adapter = :inline

if you want to revert to original setup where you queue jobs:

Rails.application.config.active_job.queue_adapter = :async
# or
Rails.application.config.active_job.queue_adapter = :sidekiq

To learn more about Active Job adapters