Building Smart Retry Strategies in Rails with Error-Aware Delays | Code With Rails
23-Jan-2026 484
Use the new retry_on error argument to build intelligent retry strategies that respect rate limits, handle transient failures, and fail fast on unrecoverable errors.
A recent Rails change lets your job retry logic inspect the actual error that occurred. This opens up retry strategies that were previously awkward to implement.
The Old Way
Before this change, retry_on wait procs only received the execution count:.
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