Interactor::Async

Extends the Interactor gem API with a single method: call_later.

Use this method whenever you want to offload an interactor call to a background job.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'interactor-async'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install interactor-async

class User::SendOnboardingMail
  include ::Interactor

  def call
    UserMailer.with(user: context.user).onboarding.deliver_now
  end
end

# Send the mail now
User::SendOnboardingMail.call(user: user)

# Send the mail later
User::SendOnboardingMail.call_later(user: user)

The gem will work out-of-the-box with any app that uses Active Job. Just replace any standard interactor call with call_later to execute it asynchronously.

An internal job is used to wrap the interactor call whenever call_later is invoked. If you want more control over the job implementation, or if you use another framework to handle background jobs, you can configure a custom job wrapper class:

Interactor::Async.configure do
  config.job_wrapper = CustomJobWrapper
end

The configured class must implement the perform method, which is invoked every time call_later is called on an interactor. It takes two arguments:

• name — the interactor class name (stringified)
• *args — all arguments passed to call_later

• All arguments to call_later must be serializable.
• The call_later method falls back to the standard call method if the project does not use Active Job and no custom job wrapper is configured.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.