An async first RPC app server built in Ruby. Supported by DRb, Puma, and Zookeeper.

• Ruby3.1 and later
• A box to run it on
• Zookeeper instance
• Optional: Extra server to run the service layer across different boxes.

Start with creating your project directory.

mkdir MyApp

Create a new Gemfile and bundle install.

source "https://rubygems.org"

gem 'shatter-rb'

Create the project with:

bundle exec shatter new <AppName>

For now, app name should be in provided in UpperCamelCase.

Init zookeeper with the required keys needed

bundle exec shatter init_service_discovery

Finally, you start shatter by running both the web server and service applications.

bundle exec shatter server
bundle exec shatter service

Congrats! Shatter is up and running!

Included in the setup is one example HelloWorldFunction to show you how things work. You can invoke it with curl like:

curl -i -X POST -d '{}' localhost:9292/hello_world

Check the location header in the response and follow that url till your response is ready. The Javascript client does all this for you, however.

You can check out a demo js script here: https://github.com/EricRoos/shatter/blob/main/javascript/dist/demo.js

We suggest you use Vite to setup your front end. Shatter comes with the ability to export your functions to a typescript definition that will give you a configured out of the box client ready for use. No need for wiring yourself except for importing whats generated.

You can generate your typescript with:

  bundle exec shatter generate_typescript --path web/src/

Assuming you have setup your javascript based front end at ./web. This will creaate a Client class that is defined with all of your functions. Example of whats generated from the sample app.

import { ShatterClient } from 'shatter-client'

interface ShatterResult {
  result: string | number | Array<any> | object,
  error: string | null
  uuid: string
}

class AppClient {
  client: ShatterClient;

  constructor(host: string){
    this.client = new ShatterClient(host)
  }

  async makeRequest<responseType>(operation : string, params : object) : Promise<responseType> {
    return await this.client.invokeRPC(operation,params) as responseType;
  }
}

class Client extends AppClient {
  async helloWorld( params : {name: string, number: number}){
    return this.makeRequest<ShatterResult & {
      result: any
    }>('hello_world', params )
  }
}
export default Client;

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/[USERNAME]/shatter. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the code of conduct.

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

Everyone interacting in the Shatter project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.

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