BlackCompany

BlackCompany provides workhorses. But there is a limit to the number of them. So it's a thread pool :yum:

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'black_company'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install black_company

Usage

require "black_company"

Simple usage:

black_company = BlackCompany.start
100.times do |i|
  black_company.receive(i) do |i|
    puts "This is the #{i}th task..."
  end
end

You can use your original workhorse:

class MyWorkhorse < BlackCompany::Workhorse
  def serve(task_content)
    puts "This is the #{task_content}th task..."
  end
end

black_company = BlackCompany.start(workhorse_class: MyWorkhorse)
100.times do |task_content|
  black_company.receive(task_content)
end

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/nownabe/black_company.