Repo brief: jondot/sneakers

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Verdict

Mixed — Stale — last commit 2y ago

• 13 active contributors
• Distributed ownership (top contributor 39% of recent commits)
• MIT licensed
• CI configured
• 1 more receipt on the live page

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What it is

Sneakers is a high-performance background job processing framework for Ruby that uses RabbitMQ as its message broker. It enables developers to process long-running or CPU-intensive tasks asynchronously by defining Workers that consume messages from RabbitMQ queues, with built-in support for retries, error handling, metrics, and multiple deployment patterns. Monolithic gem structure: lib/sneakers/ contains the core engine (worker.rb, runner.rb, spawner.rb), lib/sneakers/middleware/ for request processing, lib/sneakers/metrics/ for monitoring integrations (Statsd, NewRelic, logging), lib/sneakers/handlers/ for retry/error strategies, and examples/ with runnable worker patterns. CLI entry…

Start here

Open these first:

• lib/sneakers.rb — Entry point and main module definition; sets up global configuration and includes all core components.
• lib/sneakers/worker.rb — Core abstraction for background job workers; every job processor extends this class and defines work() method.
• lib/sneakers/runner.rb — Main orchestrator that manages worker lifecycle, message consumption loop, and signal handling.
• lib/sneakers/configuration.rb — Centralized configuration management for RabbitMQ connection, queue settings, and framework behavior.
• lib/sneakers/publisher.rb — Public API for publishing messages to RabbitMQ queues; used by application code to enqueue jobs.

Get running

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git clone https://github.com/jondot/sneakers.git
cd sneakers
bundle install
docker-compose up  # Start RabbitMQ locally
bundle exec sneakers work examples/benchmark_worker.rb --require examples/boot.rb

Daily commands:

bundle exec sneakers work MyWorkerClass --require boot.rb  # Production
bundle exec rake  # Run tests
docker-compose up  # Start RabbitMQ for local dev

Key cautions & unknowns

• Stale — last commit 2y ago
• RabbitMQ must be running: docker-compose.yml shows local dev setup required. Thread safety: Worker.work() runs in thread pool (spawner.rb), so instance variables are not safe—use thread-local storage or…
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• Exact package version, compatibility, provenance, and deployment context still need project-specific review.

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