Dispatch::Rider

Dispatch rider is a pub/sub kind of library that allows you to publish a message to a notification system (like Amazon SNS) and then you can subscribe to the channels that you subscribed to and start handling the messages. Essentially making it a multi-service background job system.

Build status

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'dispatch-rider'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install dispatch-rider

If you are using DispatchRider with rails, run the installer:

$ rails generate dispatch_rider:install

Usage

Publisher

Setting up a publisher is simple.

Hash Based Configuration

All configuration can be loaded from a hash instead of being done like the examples below. (currently only implemented for the publisher)

Global configuration

You can set the global configuration using either a hash:

DispatchRider::Publisher.configure({
  notification_services: {
    file_system: {}
  },
  destinations: {
    file_foo: {
      service: :file_system,
      channel: :foo,
      options: {
        path: "test/channel",
      }
    }
  }
})

or a block:

DispatchRider::Publisher.configure do |config|
  config.parse({
    notification_services: {
      file_system: {}
    },
    destinations: {
      file_foo: {
        service: :file_system,
        channel: :foo,
        options: {
          path: "test/channel",
        }
      }
    }
  })
end

Then anytime you call configure on a new publisher, it will default to global configuration.

DispatchRider::Publisher.new

# is the same as

DispatchRider::Publisher.new(DispatchRider::Publisher.configuration)

Local configuration

Alternatively, you can create your own configuration and load that configuration into your new publisher.

  config = DispatchRider::Publisher::Configuration.new({
    notification_services: {
      file_system: {}
    },
    destinations: {
      file_foo: {
        service: :file_system,
        channel: :foo,
        options: {
          path: "test/channel",
        }
      }
    }
  })

  DispatchRider::Publisher.new(config)

You can load this configuration hash from a YAML file or something, whatever works well for your environment.

The old way ...

To publish using the filesystem register the path where to publish the message files.

publisher = DispatchRider::Publisher.new

publisher.register_notification_service(:file_system)
publisher.register_destination(:local_message_queue, :file_system, :dev_channel, :path => "tmp/news-updates")

publisher.publish(:destinations => :local_message_queue, :message => {
  :subject => "read_news",
  :body => {"headlines" => [
    "April 29, 2013: Rails 4.0.0.rc1 is released.",
    "May 14, 2013: Ruby 2.0.0-p195 is released"
  ]
}})

To publish using AWS::SNS make sure AWS.config has been setup. It's then as easy as providing the configuration details of the topic to the publisher.

publisher = DispatchRider::Publisher.new

publisher.register_notification_service(:aws_sns)
publisher.register_destination(:sns_message_queue, :aws_sns, :dev_channel, {
  :account => 777,
  :region  => 'us-east-1',
  :topic   => 'RoR'
})

publisher.publish(:destinations => :sns_message_queue, :message => {
  :subject => "read_news",
  :body => {"headlines" => [
    "April 29, 2013: Rails 4.0.0.rc1 is released.",
    "May 14, 2013: Ruby 2.0.0-p195 is released"
  ]
}})

To publish to multiple destinations:

publisher.publish(:destinations => [:local_message_queue, :sns_message_queue], :message => {
  :subject => "read_news",
  :body => {"headlines" => [
    "April 29, 2013: Rails 4.0.0.rc1 is released.",
    "May 14, 2013: Ruby 2.0.0-p195 is released"
  ]
}})

Sample Rails publisher:

# app/publishers/news_update
class NewsPublisher < DispatchRider::Publisher::Base

  destinations :sns_message_queue
  subject "read_news"

  def self.publish(news)
    new.publish({"headlines" => news.headlines})
  end

end

Subscriber

Configuration

You can configure the subscription side of DispatchRider by using the built in configuration object.

DispatchRider.config do |config|
  config.before(:initialize) do
    # code to run before initialize
  end

  config.after(:process) do
    # code to run after process
  end

  # allows you to wrap a callback around the execution of each job
  config.around(:dispatch_message) do |job, message|
    some_block_around do
      job.call
    end
  end

  config.logger = Rails.logger
  # Log Formatter
  # Text Formatter (default)
  # config.log_formatter = DispatchRider::Logging::TextFormatter.new
  # JSON Formatter
  # config.log_formatter = DispatchRider::Logging::JsonFormatter.new

  config.default_retry_timeout = 300

  config.error_handler = DispatchRider::DefaultErrorHandler # an object that responds to .call(message, exception)

  config.queue_kind = :sqs
  config.queue_info = { name: "queue-production" }

  config.handler_path = Rails.root + "app/handlers" # path to handler files to be autoloaded
end

Options:

logger : what logger to use to send messages to (responds to the standard ruby Logger protocol), defaults to a new Logger sending messages to STDERR
log_formatter : what log formatter to use with logger, defaults to DispatchRider::Logging::TextFormatter.new

Callbacks

Dispatch rider supports injecting callbacks in a few parts of the lifecycle of the process. Each callback can have hooks plugged into it at before, after and around the execution.

On initialize `:initialize`

This callback is called when the runner is being initialized.

Block Arguments:

None

DispatchRider.config do |config|
  config.before(:initialize) do
    # your code here
  end

  config.around(:initialize) do |job|
    # your code here
    job.call
    # your code here
  end

  config.after(:initialize) do
    # your code here
  end
end

On publish `:publish`

This callback is called when the message is being published.

Block Arguments:

message: [DispatchRider::Message] -- message that is about to be sent
destinations: [Array<Symbol>] -- list of destinations to sent to

DispatchRider.config do |config|
  config.before(:publish) do |message:, destinations:|
    # your code here
  end

  config.around(:publish) do |job, message:, destinations:|
    # your code here
    job.call
    # your code here
  end

  config.after(:publish) do |message:, destinations:|
    # your code here
  end
end

On process `:process`

This callback is called when the runner is running its event loop.

Block Arguments:

None

DispatchRider.config do |config|
  config.before(:process) do
    # your code here
  end

  config.around(:process) do |job|
    # your code here
    job.call
    # your code here
  end

  config.after(:process) do
    # your code here
  end
end

On dispatch message `:dispatch_message`

This callback is called when executing a single message.

Block Arguments:

message [DispatchRider::Message] -- the message received from DispatchRider queue

DispatchRider.config do |config|
  config.before(:dispatch_message) do |message|
    # your code here
  end

  config.around(:dispatch_message) do |job, message|
    # your code here
    job.call
    # your code here
  end

  config.after(:dispatch_message) do |message|
    # your code here
  end
end

Manual Setup

To setup a subscriber you'll need message handlers. The handlers are named the same as the message subjects. Each handler may also specify a retry_timeout as shown below. When a job throws an exception it will be put back on the queue in that time period if the queue supports timeouts. If the underlying queue (such as filesystem) does not support retry then this setting is ineffective.

Sample message handler:

# app/handlers/bar_handler
class ReadNews < DispatchRider::Handlers::Base
  def process(message_body)
    message_body["headlines"].each do |headline|
      puts headline
    end
  end

  def retry_timeout
    10.minutes
  end
end

Timeout & retry handling

If you have a long running job, or if you wish to retry a job later, you may use two methods in your handler class. return_to_queue and extend_timeout.

return_to_queue will retry your item immediately. extend_timeout will tell the queue you wish to hold this item longer.

# app/handlers/foo_handler
class LongRunning < DispatchRider::Handlers::Base
  def process(body)
    my_loop.each do |item|

      #... do some work ...
      extend_timeout(1.hour)
    end
  rescue OutOfResourcesImOutError
    return_to_queue #oops!  Better give this to somebody else!
  end
end

Sample subscriber setup:

subscriber = DispatchRider::Subscriber.new

subscriber.register_queue(:aws_sqs, :name => "news-updates")
subscriber.register_handler(:read_news)
subscriber.setup_demultiplexer(:aws_sqs)

subscriber.process

Sample subscriber dispatch error handling (optional):

# using objects

module ErrorHandler

  def self.call(message, exception)
    # put your error handling code here

    return false # or return true to permanently remove the message
  end

end

subscriber.setup_demultiplexer(kind, ErrorHandler)

# using lambdas

error_handler = ->(message, exception) do
  # put your error handling code here

  return false # or return true to permanently remove the message
end

subscriber.setup_demultiplexer(kind, error_handler)

Airbrake Support

Airbrake is supported out of the box. All you need to do is:

Install and configure the airbrake gem.
Use the DispatchRider::AirbrakeErrorHandler.

subscriber.setup_demultiplexer(kind, DispatchRider::AirbrakeErrorHandler)

or set it up in the config ...

DispatchRider.config do |config|
  config.error_handler = DispatchRider::AirbrakeErrorHandler
end

Scheduling Job

Scheduled jobs currently require ActiveRecord. Support for other ORM will be added in the future depending on demand.

Add and run the DB migration below:

class CreateScheduledJobsTable < ActiveRecord::Migration
  include DispatchRider::ScheduledJob::Migration

  def change
    create_scheduled_jobs_table
  end
end

Schedule jobs:

# Use `#publish_later`
class NewsPublisher < DispatchRider::Publisher::Base
  destinations :sns_message_queue
  subject "read_news"

  def self.midnight_publish(news)
    new.publish_later("headlines" => news.headlines, at: Date.tomorrow.midnight)
  end
end

# Or create a scheduled job manually
DispatchRider::ScheduledJob.create! scheduled_at: Date.tomorrow.midnight,
                                    destinations: [:sns_message_queue],
                                    message: {
                                      subject: "read_news",
                                      body: { "headlines" => news.headlines }
                                    }

Run scheduled publishing.

# Run once

# Ideally run on a cron. Where the cron is responsible for the publishing
# frequency. Any jobs due at the time this is run by the cron  will be
# published.
DispatchRider::ScheduledJob.publish_due_jobs

# Loop. Warning: Loops are blocking. Run this on a separate thread if it's not
# the sole purpose of the app.

# publish every minute
DispatchRider::ScheduledJob.publish_due_jobs every: 1.minute

# publish every half an hour
DispatchRider::ScheduledJob.publish_due_jobs every: 30.minutes

Deployment

See DEPLOYING.md

Contributing

Process

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

Licence

MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

dispatch-rider

Development

Runtime

Dispatch::Rider

Build status

Installation

Usage

Publisher

Hash Based Configuration

Global configuration

Local configuration

The old way ...

Subscriber

Configuration

Callbacks

On initialize `:initialize`

On publish `:publish`

On process `:process`

On dispatch message `:dispatch_message`

Manual Setup

Timeout & retry handling

Airbrake Support

Scheduling Job

Deployment

Contributing

Process

Licence

dispatch-rider

Development

Runtime

Dispatch::Rider

Build status

Installation

Usage

Publisher

Hash Based Configuration

Global configuration

Local configuration

The old way ...

Subscriber

Configuration

Callbacks

On initialize :initialize

On publish :publish

On process :process

On dispatch message :dispatch_message

Manual Setup

Timeout & retry handling

Airbrake Support

Scheduling Job

Deployment

Contributing

Process

Licence

On initialize `:initialize`

On publish `:publish`

On process `:process`

On dispatch message `:dispatch_message`