Whirl

A watered-down gem for looping over jobs. Pre-wired with Redis and HTTParty. Built with Heroku usage in mind.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'whirl'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install whirl

WARNING: Version 0.0.4 breaks the Whirl::Redis.instance api. This is no longer using Ruby's singleton module. This is because when instance is called from within a subclass of Whirl::Job::Base (which executes in a child process), the parent process doesn't have access to that instance since there's no shared memory. Use Whirl::Redis.new instead. Also, within Whirl::Job::Base subclasses, the following api is available within action do; end:

action do
  redis #=> Whirl::Redis instance
end

Usage

A contrived example, but this is all you need:

require 'whirl'

class Whirl::Job::DoBusiness < Whirl::Job::Base
  action do
    say "HA HA! _BUSINESS_: http://i.imgur.com/EFcX1.jpg", :red
  end
end

class Whirl::Job::MonitorSomeStuff < Whirl::Job::Base
  action do
    # Monitor a website, make api calls, send emails...
    say "Do ALL THE MONITORING!"
  end
end

# By default, Whirl runs jobs at an interval of 10 seconds. Change this via:

ENV['WHIRL_LOOP_INTERVAL'] = 60 # <= Whirl will now run jobs every 60 seconds

Whirl.run # <= continuously loops over the DoBusiness and MonitorSomeStuff jobs at the set interval

TODO

• Finish documentation
• Detailed usage examples

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request