distributed_mutex

by Birkir A. Barkarson <[email protected]>

Description

A rails plugin proving an abstract distributed mutex along with a MySQL implementation that uses mysql named locks. Others distributed locks using Memcached etc could be implemented using the same framework.

Installation from source

git clone git://github.com/birkirb/distributed_mutex.git
cd distributed_mutex
rake install

Rails Plugin Installation

script/plugin install git://github.com/birkirb/distributed_mutex.git

Gem Install

gem install distributed_mutex

To add the plugin to your rails project, add the following to your config/environments.rb:

config.gem(:distributed_mutex)

Developing

Copy spec/config/database.stub to spec/config/database.yml and edit as needed for your mysql installation.

gem install bundler
bundle install
rake spec

Copyright

Author: Birkir A. Barkarson <[email protected]>
License: MIT License