MuchRailsRedisRecord

Store records in Redis with MuchRails.

Note: I find redis to be a good choice for one-off "token" type records or any temporary record you want removed after a certain amount of time. MuchRailsRedisRecord is ideal for these types of records.

For typical records in Rails, ActiveRecord should be preferred.

Setup

Mixin on your record object you want persisted in Redis, e.g.:

class Thing
  include MuchRailsRedisRecord

  def self.TTL_SECS
    @ttl_secs ||= 5 * 60 # 5 minutes
  end

  def self.REDIS_KEY_NAMESPACE
    "things"
  end

  attr_accessor :name

  def initialize(name:, **kargs)
    super(**kargs)

    @name = name
  end

  def to_h
    {
      "name" => name,
    }
  end

  private

  def on_validate
    validate_presence
  end

  def validate_presence
    errors[:name] << "can't be blank" if name.blank?
  end
end

Configure the redis connection

In e.g. config/initializers/much_rails.rb:

MuchRailsRedisRecord.config.redis =
  HellaRedis.new({
    url: ENV.fetch("REDIS_URL"){ "redis://localhost:6379/0" },
    driver: "ruby",
    redis_ns: "my-app",
    size: ENV.fetch("APP_MAX_THREADS"){ 5 },
    timeout: 1,
  })

Usage

$ rails c
Loading development environment (Rails 6.1.3.1)
[1] pry(main)> chair = Thing.new(name: "Chair")
=> #<Thing:0x00007fd404182358 @created_at=nil, @identifier=nil, @name="Chair", @updated_at=nil, @valid=nil>
[2] pry(main)> chair.save!
=> true
[3] pry(main)> chair
=> #<Thing:0x00007fd404182358 @created_at=2021-06-17 13:16:52.059503 UTC, @errors={}, @identifier="6600bdd3-4dc8-447b-910a-3cf079eaae98", @name="Chair", @updated_at=2021-06-17 13:16:52.059506 UTC, @valid=nil>
[4] pry(main)> chair.name = "Comfy chair"
=> "Comfy chair"
[5] pry(main)> chair.save!
=> true
[6] pry(main)> chair
=> #<Thing:0x00007fd404182358 @created_at=2021-06-17 13:16:52.059503 UTC, @errors={}, @identifier="6600bdd3-4dc8-447b-910a-3cf079eaae98", @name="Comfy chair", @updated_at=2021-06-17 13:17:12.409879 UTC, @valid=nil>
[7] pry(main)> chair.valid?
=> true
[8] pry(main)> chair.name = nil
=> nil
[9] pry(main)> chair.valid?
=> false
[10] pry(main)> chair.save!
MuchRails::InvalidError: {"name"=>["can't be blank"]}
from /Users/kelly/projects/redding/gems/much-rails-redis-record/lib/much-rails-redis-record.rb:156:in `validate!'
[11] pry(main)> chair.name = "Comfy chair"
=> "Comfy chair"
[12] pry(main)> chair.valid?
=> true
[13] pry(main)> chair.ttl
=> 242
[14] pry(main)> chair.ttl
=> 239
[15] pry(main)> chair.ttl
=> 235
[16] pry(main)> chair.redis_key
=> "things:6600bdd3-4dc8-447b-910a-3cf079eaae98"
[17] pry(main)> Thing.find_by_identifier("6600bdd3-4dc8-447b-910a-3cf079eaae98")
=> #<Thing:0x00007fd4043d97c8 @created_at=2021-06-17 13:16:52 UTC, @identifier="6600bdd3-4dc8-447b-910a-3cf079eaae98", @name="Comfy chair", @updated_at=2021-06-17 13:17:12 UTC, @valid=nil>
[18] pry(main)> chair == Thing.find_by_identifier("6600bdd3-4dc8-447b-910a-3cf079eaae98")
=> true
[19] pry(main)> Thing.find_all
=> [#<Thing:0x00007fd40440af30 @created_at=2021-06-17 13:16:52 UTC, @identifier="6600bdd3-4dc8-447b-910a-3cf079eaae98", @name="Comfy chair", @updated_at=2021-06-17 13:17:12 UTC, @valid=nil>]
[20] pry(main)> chair.destroy!
=> true
[21] pry(main)> Thing.find_all
=> []
[22] pry(main)>

Testing

Fake redis records

Use MuchRailsRedisRecord::FakeBehaviors to create test doubles for your redis records. The test doubles have the same API but won't call out to redis to persist.

E.g.

require "much-rails-redis-record/fake_behaviors"

class Factory::FakeThing < Thing
  include MuchRailsRedisRecord::FakeBehaviors

  def initialize(name: nil, **kargs)
    super(name || Factory.string, **kargs)
  end
end

[3] pry(main)> fake_thing = Factory::FakeThing.new
=> #<Factory::FakeThing:0x00007f98b0865740 @created_at=2000-12-21 05:11:53 UTC, @identifier="6c8f6609-b459-4a8f-b5e2-df1bb02efbaa", @name="ygzzysbhip", @updated_at=2000-04-01 02:17:30 UTC, @valid=nil>
[4] pry(main)> Thing.find_all
=> []
[5] pry(main)>

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem "much-rails-redis-record"

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install much-rails-redis-record

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