BigSession

BigSession is a rubygem that helps tracing session over a chain of multiple applications (it's a big session!).

It is inspired heavily by ZipkinTracer, ReuestTracer and general ideas of tracing with slight difference in its concept.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'big_session'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install big_session

Usage

Use BigSession with Rails and Faraday

(It is an only way to use BigSession at the moment.)

Install BigSession to your rails applications and put these lines below to your Rails configuration files, config/initializers/big_session.rb for example.

# inbound

::BigSession::RackMiddleware.activate

# outbound

::BigSession::FaradayBigSession.activate

It makes the application receives/generates a big session id for every request.

You can then pass the id to another rails application via HTTP Header (X-Bigse-SessionId) when you use Faraday to send HTTP request.

Check ./example for expected use cases.

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec 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 tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

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

License

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