gcslock-ruby

This is inspired by the Golang version.

Google Cloud Storage setup

  1. Setup a new project at the Google APIs Console and enable the Cloud Storage API.
  2. Install the Google Cloud SDK tool and configure your project and your OAuth credentials.
  3. Create a bucket in which to store your lock file using the command gsutil mb gs://your-bucket-name.
  4. Enable object versioning in your bucket using the command gsutil versioning set on gs://your-bucket-name.
  5. In your Ruby code, require gcslock/mutex and use it as follows:
require 'gcslock/mutex'

m = GCSLock::Mutex.new('your-bucket-name', 'my-file.lock')
m.synchronize do
  // Protected and globally serialized computation happens here.
end