Disable automatic retry with ActiveJob, used with Sidekiq

Ok thanks for the answer.

Just for information, I also asked the question in an issue related to this subject on ActiveJob Github repository : https://github.com/rails/activejob/issues/47

DHH answered me a solution I haven't tested but that can do the job.

Personnally, I finally put this in an initializer in order to disable Sidekiq retries globally and it works well :

Sidekiq.configure_server do |config|
   config.server_middleware do |chain|
      chain.add Sidekiq::Middleware::Server::RetryJobs, :max_retries => 0
   end
end

There is no way to configure anything about Sidekiq with ActiveJob. Use a Sidekiq Worker if you don't want to use the defaults.

As of sidekiq 6.0.1, it is possible to pass the following to an ActiveJob worker to prevent it from retrying:

class ExampleJob < ActiveJob::Base
  sidekiq_options retry: false

  def perform(*args)
    # Perform Job
  end
end

More information: https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq/wiki/Active-Job#customizing-error-handling

EDIT:

According to this this requires Rails 6.0.1 or later as well.