ThrottleQueue

A thread-safe rate-limited work queue, with foreground and background operations

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'throttle-queue'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install throttle-queue

Usage

Create a queue and add background work

q = ThrottleQueue.new 3
files.each {|file|
    q.background(file) {
        fetch file
    }
}

Get user input and take action right away

q.foreground(user_file) {
    fetch user_file
}

Wait for everything to finish

q.wait

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request