Propono

Propono is a pub/sub gem built on top of Amazon Web Services (AWS). It uses Simple Notification Service (SNS) and Simple Queue Service (SQS) to seamlessly pass messages throughout your infrastructure.

It's beautifully simple to use. Watch an introduction

# On Machine A
Propono::Client.new.listen('some-topic') do |message|
  puts "I just received: #{message}"
end

# On Machine B
Propono::Client.new.publish('some-topic', "The Best Message Ever")

# Output on Machine A a second later.
# - "I just received The Best Message Ever"

Changes from v1 to v2

Version 2 of Propono changed a few things:

We moved from a global interface to a client interface. Rather than calling publish and equivalent on Propono, you should now initialize a Propono::Client and then call everything on that client. This fixes issues with thread safety and global config.
We have also removed the dependancy on Fog and instead switch to the sns and sqs mini-gems of aws-sdk.
UDP and TCP support have been removed, and subscribe_by_post has been removed.
We are now using long-polling. This makes Propono significantly faster (10-100x).

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'propono'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Usage

The first thing to do is setup some configuration keys for Propono. It's best to do this in an initializer, or at the start of your application.

client = Propono::Client.new
client.config.access_key       = "access-key"       # From AWS
client.config.secret_key       = "secret-key"       # From AWS
client.config.queue_region     = "queue-region"     # From AWS

# Or use the IAM profile of the machine
client.config.use_iam_profile  = true
client.config.queue_region     = "queue-region"     # From AWS

You can then start publishing messages easily from anywhere in your codebase.

client = Propono::Client.new
client.publish('some-topic', "Some string")
client.publish('some-topic', {some: ['hash', 'or', 'array']})

Listening for messages is easy too. Just tell Propono what your application is called and start listening. You'll get a block yielded for each message.

client = Propono::Client.new
client.config.application_name = "application-name" # Something unique to this app.
client.listen('some-topic') do |message|
  # ... Do something interesting with the message
end

In the background, Propono is automatically setting up a queue using SQS, a notification system using SNS, and gluing them all together for you. But you don't have to worry about any of that.

Does it matter what I set my application_name to? For a simple publisher and subscriber deployment, no. However, the application_name has a direct impact on subscriber behaviour when more than one is in play. This is because a queue is established for each application_name/topic combination. In practice:

subscribers that share the same application_name will act as multiple workers on the same queue. Only one will get to process each message.
subscribers that have a different application_name will each get a copy of a message to process independently i.e. acts as a one-to-many broadcast.

Configuration

The following configuration settings are available:

Propono::Client.new do |config|
  # Use AWS access and secret keys
  config.access_key = "An AWS access key"
  config.secret_key = "A AWS secret key"
  # Or use AWS IAM profile of the machine
  config.use_iam_profile = true

  config.queue_region = "An AWS queue region"
  config.application_name = "A name unique in your network"
  config.logger = "A logger such as Log4r or Rails.logger"

  config.max_retries = "The number of retries if a message raises an exception before being placed on the failed queue"
  config.num_messages_per_poll = "The number of messages retrieved per poll to SQS"
end

These can all also be set using the client.config.access_key = "..." syntax.

Is it any good?

Yes.

Contributing

Firstly, thank you!! ❤️💖❤️

We'd love to have you involved. Please read our contributing guide for information on how to get stuck in.

Contributors

This project is managed by the Jeremy Walker.

These individuals have come up with the ideas and written the code that made this possible:

Licence

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the MIT License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the MIT License for more details.

A copy of the MIT License is available in LICENCE.md along with this program.

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