Newly created sidekiq worker not found (NameError: uninitialized constant UniqueJobWorkerTest::UniqueJobWorker)

Question

unique_job_worker.rb

# -*- encoding : utf-8 -*-
require_relative 'logging_helper'

class UniqueJobWorker
  include Sidekiq::Worker
  include WorkerHelper
  sidekiq_options retry: false,
                  backtrace: true,
                  queue: :sender,
                  failures: true

  def perform(worker,campaign_guid, queue)
    require'pry';binding.pry
  end
end

unique_job_worker_test.rb

require 'test_helper'
require 'mocha/setup'

class UniqueJobWorkerTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
  def setup
    require'pry';binding.pry
    @worker = UniqueJobWorker.new
  end
  
  test "it exists" do
    assert @worker
  end
end

When enqueued through redis I get this response

INFO -- : Exception: uninitialized constant UniqueJobWorker

Any suggestions as to why my newly created worker, UniqueJobWorker, is not being found during runtime through redis or through a simple test?

Thanks ahead of time!

Answer 1

When you use sidekiq outside of Rails, you need to use the -r option to tell it how to load your workers. So (assuming that your worker is in a sub-directory called workers):

% sidekiq -r ./workers/unique_job_worker.rb

If you have multiple workers, an option is to create a loader file to ensure everything is loaded.

load_workers.rb

($LOAD_PATH << 'workers').uniq!
require 'unique_job_worker'
require 'other_worker'
...

Then require the loader file on the command line:

% sidekiq -r ./load_workers.rb