Manually running Scheduled Jobs

In Frontend

Requirements

• Feature toggle async_manual_start is enabled
• Logged in as a System Admin user

Usage

• Go to <env>/jobs
  • If in a demo or local env
    • Go to <env>/test/users or Switch Users
    • Click Miscellaneous
    • Click Jobs
• Go to Scheduled Jobs tab
• Click Perform Now for the desired job
• A notification will appear after job is done

From Rails Console

RequestStore[:current_user] = User.system_user
job.perform_now
# Where job is the class name of the desired job

Additional Reading

• https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/caseflow/wiki/Backend-Pattern-Job
• https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/appeals-deployment/wiki/Caseflow-Cron-Jobs