umbra :waning_crescent_moon:

umbra /ˈʌmbrə/

noun

1. the fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object, especially the area on the earth or moon experiencing the total phase of an eclipse.
2. shadow or darkness. "an impenetrable umbra seemed to fill every inch of the museum"

umbra is a rack middleware that allows you to create shadow requests via a redis pub/sub channel.

Installation

Add this to your Gemfile

gem 'umbra-rb'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install umbra-rb

Usage

A minimal rack application using umbra would look like this:

# /config.ru
require 'rack'
require 'rack/lobster'
require 'umbra'

Umbra.configure

use Umbra::Middleware
run Rack::Lobster.new

If using Rails you can achieve the same via an initializer:

# /config/initializers/umbra.rb
require 'umbra'

Umbra.configure

Rails.application.config.middleware.use(Umbra::Middleware)

Then, in another process, you can start receiving each request via an Umbra::Subscriber. Umbra::Subscriber can be initialized with anything response to .call. For example:

Umbra::Subscriber.new(
  proc { |payload| puts "New Request: #{payload}" }
).start

The payload is the encoded request and response, as defined by the configured encoder. By default, this is Umbra::Encoder.

umbra also provides some helper classes for common use cases:

• Umbra::RequestBuilder takes the default encoding and returns a Typhoeus::Request object.
• Umbra::ShadowRequester can be configured to shadow requests count: times using a pool: of threads via a thread queue.
• More to come...

Config

umbra allows you to add custom configuration by passing a block to Umbra.configure. You may pass custom configuration in the following form:

Umbra.configure do |config|
  config.<config_option> = <config_value>
end

config_option	default	description
publisher	Umbra::Publisher	Must respond to call. By default, pushes the encoded rack request/response to a Queue that is consumed in a different thread and publishes to redis.
request_selector	Umbra::RequestSelector / proc { true }	Must respond to call. Determines whether request/response will be published
encoder	Umbra::Encoder	Must response to call. Encodes the rack request/response for publishing
error_handler	Umbra::SupressErrorHandler / proc { nil }	Must respond to call. Called on exception, is always passed the exception as first argument, may be passed rack environment and response.
redis_options	{}	Hash of options passed to Redis client. See Redis::Client docs
logger	Logger.new(STDOUT)	The logger to be used.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/carwow/umbra.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.