SimpleSegment

A simple synchronous Ruby API client for segment.io.

SimpleSegment allows for manual control of when and how the events are sent to Segment. This can be useful if you want to leverage an existing queueing system like Sidekiq or Resque for sending events or need to send events synchronously. If this is not the case you will be better off using the official segment gem that handles queuing for you.

The gem supports all existing functionality of analytics-ruby:

• analytics.track(...)
• analytics.identify(...)
• analytics.group(...)
• analytics.page(...)
• analytics.alias(...)
• analytics.flush (no op for backwards compatibility with the official gem)

In addition, it offers the ability to manually batch events with analytics.batch.

The plan is to be a drop-in replacement for the official gem, so if you find inconsistencies with analytics-ruby feel free to file an issue.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'simple_segment'

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install simple_segment

Create a client instance:

analytics = SimpleSegment::Client.new(
  write_key: 'YOUR_WRITE_KEY', # required
  on_error: proc { |error_code, error_body, exception, response|
    # defaults to an empty proc
  }
)

Use it as you would use analytics-ruby:

analytics.track(
  user_id: user.id,
  event: 'Created Account'
)

You can manually batch events with analytics.batch:

analytics.batch do |batch|
  batch.context = {...}       # shared context for all events
  batch.integrations = {...}  # shared integrations hash for all events
  batch.identify(...)
  batch.track(...)
  batch.track(...)
  ...
end

You can stub your API calls avoiding unecessary requests in development and automated test environments (backwards compatible with the official gem):

analytics = SimpleSegment::Client.new(
  write_key: 'YOUR_WRITE_KEY',
  stub: true
)

When used in stubbed mode all calls are logged to STDOUT, this can be changed by providing a custom logger object:

analytics = SimpleSegment::Client.new(
  write_key: 'YOUR_WRITE_KEY',
  logger: Rails.logger
)

You can set options that are passed to Net::HTTP.start.

analytics = SimpleSegment::Client.new(
  write_key: 'YOUR_WRITE_KEY',
  http_options: {
    open_timeout: 42,
    read_timeout: 42,
    close_on_empty_response: true,
    # ...
  }
)

You can use regional segments and send data to the desired region by setting the host parameter.

analytics = SimpleSegment::Client.new(
  write_key: 'YOUR_WRITE_KEY',
  host: 'events.eu1.segmentapis.com'
)

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

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

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