Bumped version to 1.8.1, restructured the initial migration template …

…and added fields for helder's code. Defaulted queue over to not deleting old jobs in the initializer. README has been updated to reflect changes.

README.textile

@@ -107,6 +107,10 @@ You can invoke @rake jobs:clear@ to delete all jobs in the queue. There are also
 
 h3. Changes
 
+* 1.8.1 Restructured the initial migration template, added fields for tracking jobs in queue, and defaulted the queue over to not purge completed jobs.  Much of this code came from Helder's branch.
+
+* 1.8.0: Version number was bumped by collectiveidea's fork.  TODO Document specifically what's different.
+
 * 1.7.0: Added failed_at column which can optionally be set after a certain amount of failed job attempts. By default failed job attempts are destroyed after about a month. 
 
 * 1.6.0: Renamed locked_until to locked_at. We now store when we start a given job instead of how long it will be locked by the worker. This allows us to get a reading on how long a job took to execute.                    
@@ -119,4 +123,4 @@ h3. Changes
 
 h3. Why Is This Fork Different?
 
-Patrick composed this of collectiveidea's fork and helder's fork because collective idea was more feature complete and helder had additional features I require.
+Patrick composed this of collectiveidea's fork and helder's fork because collective idea was more feature complete and helder had additional features he requires.

VERSION

@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.8.0
+1.8.1

generators/delayed_job/templates/migration.rb

@@ -1,15 +1,18 @@
 class CreateDelayedJobs < ActiveRecord::Migration
   def self.up
-    create_table :delayed_jobs, :force => true do |table|
-      table.integer  :priority, :default => 0      # Allows some jobs to jump to the front of the queue
-      table.integer  :attempts, :default => 0      # Provides for retries, but still fail eventually.
-      table.text     :handler                      # YAML-encoded string of the object that will do work
-      table.text     :last_error                   # reason for last failure (See Note below)
-      table.datetime :run_at                       # When to run. Could be Time.now for immediately, or sometime in the future.
-      table.datetime :locked_at                    # Set when a client is working on this object
-      table.datetime :failed_at                    # Set when all retries have failed (actually, by default, the record is deleted instead)
-      table.string   :locked_by                    # Who is working on this object (if locked)
-      table.timestamps
+    create_table :delayed_jobs, :force => true do |t|
+      t.integer  :priority, :default => 0      # Allows some jobs to jump to the front of the queue
+      t.integer  :attempts, :default => 0      # Provides for retries, but still fail eventually.
+      t.text     :handler                      # YAML-encoded string of the object that will do work
+      t.text     :last_error                   # reason for last failure (See Note below)
+      t.string   :locked_by                    # Who is working on this object (if locked)
+      t.datetime :run_at                       # When to run. Could be Time.now for immediately, or sometime in the future.
+      t.datetime :locked_at                    # Set when a client is working on this object
+      t.datetime :failed_at                    # Set when all retries have failed (actually, by default, the record is deleted instead)
+      t.datetime :first_started_at             # Needed for task tracking
+      t.datetime :last_started_at              # Needed for task tracking
+      t.datetime :finished_at                  # Needed for when you are not deleting items from the table on completion
+      t.timestamps
     end
 
   end

init.rb

@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/lib/delayed_job'
+Delayed::Job.destroy_successful_jobs = false