rails-jobs-patterns

rails-jobs-patterns is a skill for Claude Code from ag0os/rails-dev-plugin. It costs 72 tokens per session (1,412 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to organizing background jobs in Rails, a web framework for Ruby. It covers how to queue work, retry failures, process batches, and prevent duplicate work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or reviewing ActiveJob or Sidekiq jobs, scheduled tasks, asynchronous workflows, or large batch operations.
Why use it?
It helps avoid unreliable jobs, repeated results, and overloaded queues when work runs outside a web request.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the rails-dev-plugin plugin — 19 skills, 11 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when creating or reviewing ActiveJob or Sidekiq jobs, scheduled tasks, asynchronous workflows, or large batch operations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ag0os/rails-dev-plugin/rails-jobs-patterns
Install

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Any agent
npx skills add ag0os/rails-dev-plugin --skill rails-jobs-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ag0os/rails-dev-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rails-dev-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 11 agents.

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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,412 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00072 $0.01412
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00706
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00282
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00141

Measured 8d ago against content hash 16016a03f441, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rails-jobs-patterns scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

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Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/rails-jobs-patterns/SKILL.md · 175 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 175 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Rails Background Job Patterns

Analyze and recommend patterns for reliable, efficient background jobs in Rails applications.

Follow standard Rails conventions for retry_on, discard_on, queue_as, and basic ActiveJob structure. Focus on the opinionated patterns below.

Quick Reference

Pattern Use When
_later/_now convention Every async operation — name both versions
Shallow job + model logic All new jobs — jobs are wrappers only
Double-check locking Idempotency with concurrent workers
Self-splitting batch Datasets too large for one job
limits_concurrency Solid Queue race condition prevention
perform_all_later Bulk enqueueing (Rails 7.1+)

Supporting Documentation

  • patterns.md - Complete job patterns with detailed examples

Core Principles

  1. Jobs are shallow wrappers: Business logic lives in its Axis A home (rails-stack-profiles) — models and concerns for native, service objects for extracted. Jobs handle only queuing and retry infrastructure
  2. _later/_now convention: Define thing_later (queues job) and thing (does work) on the model. The job just calls the model method
  3. Double-check locking for idempotency: Guard clause THEN with_lock THEN guard again — prevents races between concurrent workers
  4. Pass IDs, not objects: Avoid serialization issues and stale data
  5. Queue segmentation: Separate critical, default, low, and mailers

The _later/_now Pattern (37signals)

# Model defines both versions
class Webhook::Delivery < ApplicationRecord
  after_create_commit :deliver_later

  def deliver_later
    Webhook::DeliveryJob.perform_later(self)
  end

  def deliver
    in_progress!
    self.response = perform_request
    completed!
  rescue => e
    failed!(e.message)
  end
end

# Job is a shallow wrapper — no business logic
class Webhook::DeliveryJob < ApplicationJob
  queue_as :webhooks
  def perform(delivery)
    delivery.deliver
  end
end

Read the full file on GitHub · 175 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 175 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 16016a03f441

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rails-jobs-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository ag0os/rails-dev-plugin (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 1,412 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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