CZTop

CZTop is a CZMQ binding for Ruby. It is based on czmq-ffi-gen, the generated low-level FFI binding of CZMQ and has a focus on being easy to use for Rubyists (POLS) and providing first class support for security mechanisms (like CURVE).

See this example:

#! /usr/bin/env ruby

require 'bundler/inline'

gemfile do
  source 'https://rubygems.org'
  gem 'cztop', path: '../../'
  gem 'async'
end

ENDPOINT = 'inproc://req_rep_example'
# ENDPOINT = 'ipc:///tmp/req_rep_example0'
# ENDPOINT = 'tcp://localhost:5556'

Async do |task|
  rep_task = task.async do |t|
    socket = CZTop::Socket::REP.new ENDPOINT

    loop do
      msg = socket.receive
      puts "<<< #{msg.to_a.inspect}"
      socket << msg.to_a.map(&:upcase)
    end
  ensure
    puts "REP done."
  end

  task.async do
    socket = CZTop::Socket::REQ.new ENDPOINT

    10.times do |i|
      socket << "foobar ##{i}"
      msg = socket.receive
      puts ">>> #{msg.to_a.inspect}"
    end

    puts "REQ done."
    rep_task.stop
  end
end

Output:

$ cd examples
$ time ./async.rb
<<< ["foobar #0"]
>>> ["FOOBAR #0"]
<<< ["foobar #1"]
>>> ["FOOBAR #1"]
<<< ["foobar #2"]
>>> ["FOOBAR #2"]
<<< ["foobar #3"]
>>> ["FOOBAR #3"]
<<< ["foobar #4"]
>>> ["FOOBAR #4"]
<<< ["foobar #5"]
>>> ["FOOBAR #5"]
<<< ["foobar #6"]
>>> ["FOOBAR #6"]
<<< ["foobar #7"]
>>> ["FOOBAR #7"]
<<< ["foobar #8"]
>>> ["FOOBAR #8"]
<<< ["foobar #9"]
>>> ["FOOBAR #9"]
REQ done.
REP done.

________________________________________________________
Executed in  401.51 millis    fish           external
   usr time  308.44 millis  605.00 micros  307.83 millis
   sys time   40.08 millis  278.00 micros   39.81 millis

A slightly more complex version (more sockets) is here.

• Ruby idiomatic API
• compatible with Fiber Scheduler (only on Ruby >= 3.2)
• errors as exceptions
• CURVE security
• supports CZMQ DRAFT API
• extensive spec coverage

• CZMQ >= 4.2
• ZMQ >= 4.3

On Ubuntu 20.04+:

$ sudo apt install libczmq-dev

On macOS using Homebrew, run:

$ brew install czmq

At least:

• Ruby 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

To use this gem, add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'cztop'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install cztop

Here's an overview of the core classes:

• CZTop
  • Actor
  • Authenticator
  • Beacon
  • Certificate
  • CertStore
  • Config
  • Frame
  • Message
  • Monitor
  • Metadata
  • Proxy
  • Poller (based on zmq_poller_*() functions)
    • Aggregated
    • ZPoller
  • Socket
    • REQ < Socket
    • REP < Socket
    • ROUTER < Socket
    • DEALER < Socket
    • PUSH < Socket
    • PULL < Socket
    • PUB < Socket
    • SUB < Socket
    • XPUB < Socket
    • XSUB < Socket
    • PAIR < Socket
    • STREAM < Socket
    • CLIENT < Socket
    • SERVER < Socket
    • RADIO < Socket
    • DISH < Socket
    • SCATTER < Socket
    • GATHER < Socket
  • Z85
    • Padded < Z85
    • Pipe
  • ZAP

More information in the API documentation.

The API should be fairly straight-forward to anyone who is familiar with CZMQ and Ruby. The following API documentation is currently available:

• YARD API documentation (release)

Feel free to start a wiki page.

CZTop is just a convenience layer on top of the thin czmq-ffi-gen library.

Make sure to check out the perf directory for latency and throughput measurement scripts.

See the examples directory for some examples.

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

To run the tests before/after you made any changes to the source and have created a test case for it, use rake spec.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the ISC License. See the LICENSE file.