disque-rb

Client for Disque, an in-memory, distributed job queue.

Create a new Disque client by passing a list of nodes:

client = Disque.new(["127.0.0.1:7711", "127.0.0.1:7712", "127.0.0.1:7713"])

Alternatively, you can pass a single string with comma-separated nodes:

client = Disque.new("127.0.0.1:7711,127.0.0.1:7712,127.0.0.1:7713")

Using a single string is useful if you are receiving the list of nodes from an environment variable.

If the nodes are password protected, you can pass the AUTH string:

client = Disque.new("127.0.0.1:7711", auth: "e727d1464a...")

The client keeps track of which nodes are providing more jobs, and after a given number operations it tries to connect to the preferred node. The number of operations for each cycle defaults to 1000, but it can be configured:

client = Disque.new("127.0.0.1:7711", cycle: 20000)

Now you can add jobs:

client.push("foo", "bar", 100)

It will push the job "bar" to the queue "foo" with a timeout of 100 ms, and return the id of the job if it was received and replicated in time.

Disque's ADDJOB signature is as follows:

ADDJOB queue_name job <ms-timeout>
  [REPLICATE <count>]
  [DELAY <sec>]
  [RETRY <sec>]
  [TTL <sec>]
  [MAXLEN <count>]
  [ASYNC]

You can pass any optional arguments as a hash, for example:

disque.push("foo", "myjob", 1000, ttl: 1, async: true)

Note that async is a special case because it's just a flag. That's why true must be passed as its value.

Then, your workers will do something like this:

loop do
  client.fetch(from: ["foo"]) do |job|
    # Do something with `job`
  end
end

The fetch command receives an array of queues, and optionally a timeout (in milliseconds) and the count of jobs to retrieve:

client.fetch(from: ["bar", "baz"], count: 10, timeout: 2000)

You can install it using rubygems.

$ gem install disque