FineTune can be used to limit the rate of any given activity/event stream such as outgoing emails for a user. It's not fixed on a particular implementation of throttling, rather it provides a framework to add custom implementations/algorithms.
The main difference with other rate limiting libraries is the flexibility of using custom throttling algorithms and external data/cache stores. Also it doesn't need to be configured first, all options can be passed in each throttling request.
$ gem install fine_tune
Throttle represents an occurrence of a defined event. It will return true if the threshold has reached. If not the count will be increased by one and will return false.
$ FineTune.throttle(:transactions_per_hour, user_id, options)
- :transactions_per_hour - the name for the event
- user_id - some unique identifier for a resource (ie: user)
- options - configurations for the throttling implementation
An additional block can be passed, which will be called with event details. ie:
$ FineTune.throttle(:transactions_per_hour, user_id, options) do
| count, comparison, id, strategy, options |
#something...
end
In addition, there's a more charged version - throttle! which will raise a MaxRateError when reached the threshold. Same as throttle, it takes a block.
$ FineTune.throttle!(:transactions_per_hour, user_id, options)
To get the current count of events:
$ FineTune.count(:emails_per_day, user_id, options)
To check whether threshold has reached:
$ FineTune.rate_exceeded?(:emails_per_day, user_id, options)
To reset the count of events for a resource:
$ FineTune.reset(:emails_per_day, user_id, options)
###(Optional)
To configure default options:
$ FineTune.add_limit(:hourly_emails, window: 3600, limit: 25)
Options passed here will be overridden by any options passed in the individual calls.
To remove a pre-defined rule:
$ FineTune.remove_limit(:hourly_emails, window: 3600, limit: 25)
###Supported implementations:
After checking out the repo, run bundle to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests.
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/laknath/fine_tune. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.
Some of the behaviours were inspired by Props.
Thanks you!
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.