Marloss

Marloss is a general DynamoDB-based lock implementation.

This Gem is tested using Ruby 2.6, 2.5, 2.4, 2.3

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem "marloss"

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install marloss

Usage

Marloss can be use as module, with some useful heplers, or plain for more specific use cases

Module

Include the module to your class and set the options

class MyClass

  include Marloss

  marloss_options table: "my_table", hash_key: "ID"

end

now you can simply wrap the code that needs to be locked

with_marloss_locker("my_lock") do |locker|
  # execute code
  # ...
  # refresh lock if needed
  locker.refresh
end

Plain

Firstly, we need to initialize a lock store:

store = Marloss::Store.new("lock_table_name", "LockHashKeyName")

Create table if it does not exist:

store.create_table

We can use this store to create a single lock

locker = Marloss::Locker.new(store, "my_resource")

# raise exception if we fail to get a lock
locker.obtain_lock

# or we can block until we get a lock
locker.wait_until_lock_obtained

# refresh the lock once
locker.refresh_lock

# delete the lock
locker.release_lock

Testing

rspec

Logging

By default Marloss logs to STDOUT, you can override it with the following command.

Marloss.logger = Logger.new("my_app.log")

What's in a name?

"Marlòss" means lock, in Trentino's dialect. I'm from Volano, and I liked the idea of using a word from my hometown.

Contributing

This repository is open to contributions.