This gem contains support for PostgreSQL LISTEN and NOTIFY functionality: doc.
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem "activerecord-postgres_pub_sub"
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install activerecord-postgres_pub_sub
The Listener
class is used to handle notification messages on one or more
channels.
The listener can be configured with three blocks:
- on_notify: called whenever a notification is received.
- on_start: called before receiving any notifications.
- on_timeout: called based on a configurable timeout, when no notifications have been received.
When creating a listener, the following configuration is supported:
- listen_timeout: If set, the
on_timeout
block will be called if no notifications are received within this period. (Defaultnil
). - notify_only: A payload string can be included in notifications. By default
the listener ignores the payload and coalesces multiple notifications into a
single call. When this option is
false
, theon_notify
block is called with the payload for each notification. (Defaulttrue
). - exclusive_lock: Acquire a lock using
with_advisory_lock prior to listening.
This option ensures that a process as a singleton listener. (Default
true
).
Example:
ActiveRecord::PostgresPubSub::Listener.listen("notify_channel", listen_timeout: 30) do |listener|
listener.on_start do
# when starting assume we missed something and perform regular activity
handle_notification
end
listener.on_notify do
handle_notification
end
listener.on_timeout do
perform_regular_maintenance
end
end
This gem contains a Rails generator for a migration to add a trigger to notify on insert to a table.
The generator must be run with a model name corresponding to the table.
rails generate active_record:postgres_pub_sub:notify_on_insert --model_name NameSpace::Entity
In this example, notification events would be generated for the channel named "name_space_entity"
based
on inserts to the name_space_entities
table.
After checking out the repo, run bin/setup
to install dependencies. Then,
run rake spec
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.
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/ezcater/activerecord-postgres_pub_sub.
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.