Show HN: Stepped Actions – distributed workflow orchestration for Rails

Re:Show HN: Stepped Actions – distributed workflow orchestra... by moh_quz on Sunday December 14, 2025 @05:36AM (#46262132)

This looks useful. I've been exploring similar durable execution patterns in Go recently to avoid the complexity of Temporal for smaller workflows.

How does stepped_actions handle the state between steps? Does it persist to the DB after every single action to handle crash recovery, or is it more optimistic?

Good luck with the launch

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Re:Show HN: Stepped Actions – distributed workflow orchestra... by klevo on Sunday December 14, 2025 @07:08AM (#46262498)

Yes, state is persisted to DB upon every change. Action exceptions are handled gracefully and natural part of the system, they simply fail the action. Crash recovery is build-in thanks to checksums and ActiveJob, if you're using the right adapter, like GoodJob or SolidQueue where crash recovery is guaranteed.

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Re:Show HN: Stepped Actions – distributed workflow orchestra... by nzoschke on Friday December 19, 2025 @11:04AM (#46327292)

I recently started using this DBOS in Go and it’s been good.

https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbos-transact-golang

I have River on my list to try someday too

https://riverqueue.com/pro

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