Introduction to Activities

An Activity is a function that executes a single, well-defined action (either short or long running), which handles operations that can fail. Here are some examples:

Sending e-mails
API calls
Database writes
Network requests

An Activity involves code that is prone to failure because if it fails (let’s say the API is down), Temporal automatically retries it over and over until it succeeds or until your customized retry or timeout configuration is hit.

Here are two Activities: one for withdrawing money and one for depositing money.

Activity Code

require 'temporalio/activity'

class WithdrawMoneyActivity < Temporalio::Activity::Definition
  def execute(amount)
    # raise StandardError, 'Bank service temporarily unavailable'
    puts "Successfully withdrawn $#{amount}"
    true
  end
end

class DepositMoneyActivity < Temporalio::Activity::Definition
  def execute(amount)
    puts "Successfully deposited $#{amount}"
    true
  end
end

See our code in more detail here.