How to limit the failed job retry counter with ActiveJob and Sidekiq?

Question

I would like to limit the number of retries when a job fails using ActiveJob with Sidekiq as adapter.

Using Sidekiq, I can do that:

class LessRetryableWorker
  include Sidekiq::Worker
  sidekiq_options :retry => 5

  def perform(...)
  end
end

Sidekiq configuration doesn't provide a global retry config. Each Worker is responsible of setting the retry option. So I guess I have to implement it in ActiveJob side to do it properly.

Answer 1

Sidekiq provide a server-level config to handle this case. From Sidekiq ruby-doc:

Sidekiq.configure_server do |config|
  config.server_middleware do |chain|
    chain.add Middleware::Server::RetryJobs, :max_retries => 7
  end
end