handling-retryables.rb

# In the app we re-raise every error, with a reference to the original

class HardWorker
  def perform
    # blabla
  rescue GdsApi::TimeOut => e
    raise GovukSidekiq::RetryableError.new(cause: e)
  end
end

# In govuk_app_config we ignore all retryable errors

Raven.configure do |config|
  config.excluded_exceptions << "GovukSidekiq::RetryableError"
end

# And in govuk_sidekiq we make sure that we raise the original error

sidekiq_retries_exhausted do |msg, e|
  if e.is_a?(GovukSidekiq::RetryableError)
    raise e.cause
  end
end