Microservices on Rails

Rails::Service is an opinionated Rails Engine providing boiler plate needed for making microservice Rails application.

This gem is currently under heavy development. It's not ready for production usage yet.

Note on Microservices

Microservices architecture is a great way to build and scale huge distributed applications. It implies though that it's not for everybody and you're probably better off sticking with your monolith and considering microservices in the future when the need arise or even maybe never if you'll lucky.

Microservices are not for everybody, they're hard and in fact they're not a good solution for everybody.

Before choosing and investing in microservices architecture, I advise you to strongly considering it from every angle.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'rails-service'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install rails-service

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake rspec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Any contributors to the master rails-service repository must sign the Individual Contributor License Agreement (CLA). It's a short form that covers our bases and makes sure you're eligible to contribute.

When you have a change you'd like to see in the master repository, send a pull request. Before we merge your request, we'll make sure you're in the list of people who have signed a CLA.

License

Copyright 2015 Square, Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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