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title: "Active Job Continuations"
description:
  "Active job feature that allows us to describe jobs in an interruptible manner"
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# Active Job Continuations

Active job feature that allows us to describe jobs in an interruptible manner

- Author: Vishnu M
- Published: June 9, 2025
- Categories: Rails, Sidekiq, Ruby

Active Job Continuations was recently merged into Rails. We recommend that you
go through the description in the
[pull request](https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/55127) since they are so
well written.

If you prefer watching a video to learn about Active Job Continuations, then we
made a video for you.

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In short, this feature allows you to configure your jobs in such a manner that
the job can be interrupted and next time when the job starts, it'll start from a
particular point so that the work done so far is not totally wasted.

This work is highly inspired by Shopify's
[job-iteration](https://github.com/Shopify/job-iteration) gem.

## Links

- [Human page](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/active-jobs-continuations)