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Sometimes a specific piece of code takes a long time to run but doesn’t need to run right away. An example is sending an e-mail after creating an order at the end of an online shopping workflow. It can take a long time to send an e-mail, but you don’t want your user to wait for that to happen within the controller. It makes more sense to use a queueing mechanism for these tasks.
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Wintermeyer, S. (2018). Active Job. In: Learn Rails 5.2. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3489-1_10
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