best way to re-activate a job

[jnicho02]

What is the best procedure to re-activate a job that errored due to a system fault that has now been fixed? QueJob does a great job of retrying with backoff and eventually giving up (is that true?).

reset the error_count to 0?

nil out the expired_at date?

Oh, and should I be able to access Que::ActiveRecord::Model in Rails console? I can access Que::ActiveRecord but no Que::ActiveRecord::Model (i've added my own Rails model record to be able access it for now)

I think this would be useful practical help to anyone running live, and should go in the documentation

[jnicho02]

Just successfully did a

.update(error_count: 0, expired_at: nil)

[ZimbiX]

That update looks good to me. You're right that we should document it. Feel free to PR the docs ;)

Oh, and should I be able to access Que::ActiveRecord::Model in Rails console? I can access Que::ActiveRecord but no Que::ActiveRecord::Model (i've added my own Rails model record to be able access it for now)

I don't have experience with using it in Rails, but I believe you'd need to require 'que/active_record/model', and perhaps define the subclass from that example too (as I think you're saying you've done).

eventually giving up (is that true?).

Yeah, that's what expired_at indicates. See error handling and maximum_retry_count.