How to test that ActiveJob is enqueued?

Question

I have a create action that calls an ActiveJob if the record is successfully saved.

def create
  @object = Object.new(importer_params)
  respond_to do |format|
         


        

Answer 1

I've always looked at the size of ActiveJob::Base.queue_adapter.enqueued_jobs to test if a job was called. giving the code

it 'does something' do
  expect {
    post :create, { object: valid_attributes }
  }.to change {
    ActiveJob::Base.queue_adapter.enqueued_jobs.count
  }.by 1
end

You should make sure that you are setting the enqueued_jobs to an empty array after each spec to avoid any unexpected behaviour. You can do this in the spec/rails_helper.rb

Answer 2

In official docs here is have_enqueued_job matcher

The have_enqueued_job (also aliased as enqueue_job) matcher is used to check if given ActiveJob job was enqueued.

https://relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-rails/docs/matchers/have-enqueued-job-matcher

Answer 3

If you need to check that your job has been enqueued several times, you can now do this:

expect {
  3.times { HelloJob.perform_later }
}.to have_enqueued_job(HelloJob).at_least(2).times