Production-ready NATS JetStream bridge for Ruby/Rails with outbox, inbox, DLQ, and overlap-safe stream provisioning.
Highlights
- Transactional outbox and idempotent inbox (optional) for exactly-once pipelines.
- Durable pull consumers with retries, backoff, and DLQ routing.
- Auto stream/consumer provisioning with overlap protection.
- Rails-native: generators, migrations, health check, and eager-loading safety.
- Mock NATS for fast, no-infra testing.
Quick Start
# Gemfile
gem "jetstream_bridge", "~> 4.0"
bundle install
bin/rails g jetstream_bridge:install
bin/rails db:migrate
# config/initializers/jetstream_bridge.rb
JetstreamBridge.configure do |config|
config.nats_urls = ENV.fetch("NATS_URLS", "nats://localhost:4222")
config.env = ENV.fetch("RAILS_ENV", "development")
config.app_name = "my_app"
config.destination_app = "worker_app"
config.use_outbox = true
config.use_inbox = true
config.use_dlq = true
end
# Note: configure only sets options; it does not connect. In Rails the Railtie
# starts the bridge after initialization. In non-Rails apps call
# `JetstreamBridge.startup!` (or rely on auto-connect on first publish/subscribe).
Publish:
JetstreamBridge.publish(event_type: "user.created", resource_type: "user", payload: { id: 1 })
Consume:
consumer = JetstreamBridge::Consumer.new do |event|
User.upsert({ id: event.payload["id"] })
end
consumer.run!
Documentation
License
MIT