dlm

Conservative redis based ruby distributed lock manager

Requirements

This gem requires a running redis server and the redis ruby gem.

gem install dlm

or Gemfile

source 'https://rubygems.org'

gem 'dlm'

require 'dlm'

dlm = DLM.new

dlm.lock('test')
# do work here
dlm.unlock('test')

Use a custom Redis instance

require 'dlm'

dlm = DLM.new(Redis.new(url: 'redis://myredisserver'))

Reuse an existing Redis instance

require 'dlm'

redis = Redis.new(url: 'redis://myotherredis')

dlm = DLM.new(redis)