BackgroundProxy

This gem provides a proxy interface to background method calls to a background thread. A good case is for an external api request that can be deferred until later (rather than blocking the rest of the request).

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'background_proxy'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install background_proxy

Instead of using your client instance, wrap that client instance in a background proxy. It will create new Thread(s) to handle writing to the client.

# example usage for writing messages to Kafka via the Poseidon gem
client = Poseidon::Producer.new(...)
proxy = BackgroundProxy::Proxy.new(client)
proxy.send_messages([...])

Any message that the wrapped object can handle, the proxy will send through to that model.

IMPORTANT NOTES

• These proxies do not currently clean themselves up until after the request finishes.
• The clients need to be thread-safe or not have any kind of mutable state (that is mutated).

v0.1.1 - Fix respond_to_missing? (respond_to? won't crash) v0.1.0 - Initial release

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test 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/chingor13/background_proxy.