alias_attribute for delayed_job attributes

[Evgeny Rahman]

Hi everyone!

I'm trying to use delayed_job with a database (Teradata) where both "queue" and "handler" are reserved names, and can't be used as column names in a table. 

I have the following code for the Delayed Job model -

class Delayed::Job < ActiveRecord::Base

  alias_attribute :handler, :dj_handler

  alias_attribute :queue, :dj_queue

end

but it does not seem to matter, as the application throws the error -

unknown attribute: queue

What's the right way to tell delayed_job that it should look at differently-named attributes for queue and handler?

Thanks,

Evgeny

[Evgeny Rahman]

For anyone interested, I solved this problem by placing the code in my original post in an initializer instead of in a model.