Telesink ActiveJob Integration

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I’m a Rails developer through and through. Telesink itself is built in Ruby on Rails. For background jobs I’ve been using Solid Queue together with Mission Control — and I absolutely love it.

Mission Control is fantastic: simple dashboard, deep insights into job history, retries, errors, and performance metrics. It’s become an essential part of my Rails workflow.

There was just one thing missing: real-time visibility.

I’d enqueue jobs, go about my day, and later wonder — did they run? Did they fail? How long did they take? Mission Control gives you the full picture after the fact, but there’s no live feed. The only real option was refreshing the dashboard or SSH’ing into the server at 2 a.m. to tail logs. Not exactly modern.

So a few weeks ago I tweeted exactly that:

“Solid Queue is my default for background jobs in Rails. Still feels a bit blind without real-time visibility though…”

I decided to fix it the Telesink way — by feeding job lifecycle events straight into the live feed.

A couple of days later I shared this quick demo:

Watch the first live job monitoring dashboard in action

The response was great, so I cleaned it up, extracted the code, and today I’m happy to ship the official Telesink ActiveJob integration.

The gem telesink-activejob gives every Rails app automatic, zero-config real-time visibility into its background jobs — complementing Mission Control perfectly.

Installation

Add this to your Gemfile: 

gem "telesink-activejob"

Then run:

bundle install

Configuration

No extra setup required — it reuses the same TELESINK_ENDPOINT you already have from the core Telesink Ruby SDK.

(Optional but recommended) Want job events in their own clean dashboard/feed? Set a dedicated sink: 

export TELESINK_ACTIVEJOB_ENDPOINT=https://app.telesink.com/api/v1/sinks/your_jobs_sink_token/events

For self-hosted Telesink, just point it at your own server.

Usage

That’s it. Every job that inherits from ApplicationJob (or directly from ActiveJob::Base) now automatically sends four events:

job.enqueued
when the job is queued (includes queue name)
job.started
when execution begins (includes queue name)
job.succeeded
when it finishes successfully (includes duration in seconds)
job.failed
when it fails (includes the exception class and message)

No include statements, no manual calls, no callbacks to remember. It just works with Solid Queue, Sidekiq, GoodJob, or any other ActiveJob backend.

If you prefer explicit control, you can opt in manually: 

class MyJob < ApplicationJob
  include Telesink::ActiveJob::Telesinkable
  # ...
end

See it live in the demo dashboard (the same one I showed in the tweet).

What’s under the hood

The gem is tiny and uses only standard Rails ActiveJob hooks. It:

It’s deliberately lightweight — just like the rest of Telesink.

Next steps

This is our first official integration built on top of the Telesink platform. I’ll keep shipping more tools and integrations for Rails (and beyond). Let me know on X what you want to see next.

Official Telesink tools:

The complete source is at github.com/telesink/telesink-activejob. It’s MIT licensed, obviously.

Now go add the gem and watch your background jobs appear instantly in your Telesink feed — real-time visibility that pairs beautifully with Mission Control.

Follow along on X at @kyrylo.