[LRUG] Event Bus in ruby

Sleepyfox sleepyfox at gmail.com
Wed Aug 20 03:14:12 PDT 2014


Something that might initially sound a bit weird, but suits small apps
well, is using Redis for it's dirt simple Pub/Sub support. It's
trivially easy to use Redis as a message bus (trivially easy to use
Redis, full stop), and if you're not looking for the last word in
sophistication or scale (in which case something like RabbitMQ is
probably a better bet) it does the job.

The approach is described in the following article (about Node rather
than Ruby, but you get the picture):

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On 20 August 2014 09:23, Klaus Hebsgaard <klaus at hebsgaard.dk> wrote:
> Thanks for the pointer, however there were a few points I didn't put into
> the original request:
> - I need something small, as the app is small
> - I don't mind synchronous event busses, as we don't handle anything big
> yet.
> - I would like some simplicity, so adding more processes to run on the
> server, would be too much overhead at the moment
> - We use MRI at the moment, though I can see lots of advantages to JRuby
>
>
>
> Med Venlig hilsen / Best regards
>
> Klaus Hebsgaard
>
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>
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Vish Vishvanath <vish.vishvanath at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hey Klaus,
>>
>> On a slightly different note, I've had very positive experiences with Ruby
>> in vert.x,  which enables excellent decoupling with its system of
>> 'verticles': independent code modules communicating via immutable primitives
>> across an event bus.
>>
>> The fact that you can leverage Java and several languages in the same
>> codebase is a bonus.
>>
>> Best
>>
>> vv
>>
>> On 20 Aug 2014, at 07:42, Klaus Hebsgaard <klaus at hebsgaard.dk> wrote:
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> I am currently looking into decoupling my app a bit more.
>> Coming from a C# background I would like to use an Event Bus for this, so
>> that I can apply the observer pattern.
>>
>> I have searched a bit around and have found:
>> https://github.com/kevinrutherford/event_bus
>>
>> Does anyone know this gem, is it worth using (well maintained etc)?
>> Do you know of good alternatives?
>>
>> Med Venlig hilsen / Best regards
>>
>> Klaus Hebsgaard
>>
>> Website: http://www.hebsgaard.dk
>> Blog: http://blog.khebbie.dk
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>>
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