Retrying a message

Good news - you don't need to do anything to retry a message, SQS will handle that automatically for you. Basically do not delete sqs_msg.delete if you want to retry a message. The message will become available again when it reaches the visibility_timeout.

class MyWorker
  include Shoryuken::Worker

  shoryuken_options queue: 'default', delete: true

  def perform(sqs_msg, body)
    do_something(sqs_msg, body) # raises an exception
  end
end

The example above you make the message available again in case the do_something raises an exception. Be careful with the delete option, if it's sent to true it will auto delete the message in case of the worker doesn't raise an exception.