brow

Brow

A generic background thread worker for shipping events via https to some API backend. It'll get events to your API by the sweat of its brow.

I've been wanting to build something like this for a while. This might be a terrible start. But its a start.

I noticed a lot of companies copied segment's analytics-ruby project and are using it successfully.

So that's where I began. Seems safe to assume that project has been around long enough and is production hardened enough. I guess I'll find out. :)

Things around here are pretty basic for now. But I'm looking to spruce it up and production test it over the coming months — likely with Flipper and Flipper Cloud.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'brow'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install brow

Usage

require "brow"

client = Brow::Client.new({
  url: "https://requestbin.net/r/rna67for",
})

50.times do |n|
  client.push({
    number: n,
    now: Time.now.utc,
  })
end

# batch of 50 events sent to api url above as json

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/jnunemaker/brow.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.