polling with delayed_job

I have a process which takes generally a few seconds to complete so I'm trying to use delayed_job to handle it asynchronously. The job itself works fine, my question is how to go about polling the job to find out if it's done.

I can get an id from delayed_job by simply assigning it to a variable:

job = Available.delay.dosomething(:var => 1234)

+------+----------+----------+------------+------------+-------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+------------+-------------+
| id   | priority | attempts | handler    | last_error | run_at      | locked_at | failed_at | locked_by | created_at | updated_at  |
+------+----------+----------+------------+------------+-------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+------------+-------------+
| 4037 | 0        | 0        | --- !ru... |            | 2011-04-... |           |           |           | 2011-04... | 2011-04-... |
+------+----------+----------+------------+------------+-------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+------------+-------------+

But as soon as it completes the job it deletes it and searching for the completed record returns an error:

@job=Delayed::Job.find(4037)

ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound: Couldn't find Delayed::Backend::ActiveRecord::Job with ID=4037

@job= Delayed::Job.exists?(params[:id])

Should I bother to change this, and maybe postpone the deletion of complete records? I'm not sure how else I can get a notification of it's status. Or is polling a dead record as proof of completion ok? Anyone else face something similar?