Rhinestone
Has it ever bothered you how long bundle install
command takes to run?
It has bothered me, so I wrote Rhinestone: a simple proxy caches both the gems and the gem metadata. It updates the cache after returning the response, so you get data that might be a little stale, but you get it very quickly. You should deploy it somewhere in your local network (so that more people use the same cache).
Installation
Just install it from RubyGems:
gem install rhinestone
Below is the upstart script I used to make it run on Ubuntu:
# File: /etc/init/rhinestone.conf
# Rhinestone - a RubyGems.org proxy
description "rhinestone proxy server"
start on runlevel [23]
stop on shutdown
exec sudo rhinestone -p 80 -e prod -l /var/log/rhinestone.log -P /var/run/rhinestone.pid -C /var/rhinestone/cache
respawn
Running
It's as simple as running:
rhinestone
Rhinestone uses Goliath underneath, so there are some switches you can use:
Server options:
-e, --environment NAME Set the execution environment (prod, dev or test) (default: development)
-a, --address HOST Bind to HOST address (default: 0.0.0.0)
-p, --port PORT Use PORT (default: 9000)
-S, --socket FILE Bind to unix domain socket
Daemon options:
-u, --user USER Run as specified user
-c, --config FILE Config file (default: ./config/<server>.rb)
-d, --daemonize Run daemonized in the background (default: false)
-l, --log FILE Log to file (default: off)
-s, --stdout Log to stdout (default: false)
-P, --pid FILE Pid file (default: off)
SSL options:
--ssl Enables SSL (default: off)
--ssl-key FILE Path to private key
--ssl-cert FILE Path to certificate
--ssl-verify Enables SSL certificate verification
Common options:
-v, --verbose Enable verbose logging (default: false)
-h, --help Display help message
Rhinestone-specific options:
-C, --cache-path DIRECTORY The directory where cache files will be stored
Usage
Assuming you have Rhinestone running somewhere in your local network, add this to your Gemfile:
source :rubygems
source "http://rhinestone.local" # the address of rhinestone
This will speed up bundle install
about 5-6x times, and even more if you remove the rubygems part completely (but I don't recommend that).
Note that the Rhinestone line is beneath rubygems one.
Otherwise bundler would download most of the gems directly from Rubygems and not from the proxy.
Author
Adam Pohorecki
License
MIT, see the MIT-LICENSE file.