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Map-Reduce for Rails, ActiveJob and Redis
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Map-Reduce for Rails, ActiveJob and Redis

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# Bramble [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/rmosolgo/bramble.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/rmosolgo/bramble) [![Gem Version](https://badge.fury.io/rb/bramble.svg)](https://badge.fury.io/rb/bramble)

Map-reduce with ActiveJob + database

## Rationale

We have some staff-only views that expose stats about how people use our app. Eventually, our tables grew so large that MySQL wouldn't aggregate them all at once. So we can use this to generate those stats over time.

## Usage

- Setup ActiveJob with a queue named `:bramble`

- Setup Redis and give Bramble a connection object:

```ruby
my_redis_connection = Redis.new # Your connection settings here!
Bramble.config do |conf|
conf.redis_conn = my_redis_connection
# By default, keys expire after 1 day.
# Assign a value here to override that:
# conf.expire_after = 60 * 60 * 24 * 7 # 7 days
# conf.expire_after = nil # never expire
end
```

- Define a module with `map`, `reduce` and `items(options = {})` functions:

```ruby
module LetterCount
# Generate a list of items based on some input
def self.items(filepath)
File.read(filepath).split(" ")
end

# .map is called with each item in the input
def self.map(word)
letters = word.upcase.each_char

# call `yield` to emit a key-value pair for processing
letters.each { |letter| yield(letter, 1) }
end

# .reduce is called with
# - `yield` key (first argument)
# - array of `yield` values (second argument)
def self.reduce(letter, observations)
# letter => "A"
# observations => [1, 1, 1, 1, 1]
observations.length
end

# If a .map or .reduce hits an error,
# it will be rescued and passed here.
# To cause the job to fail, raise it again.
# Otherwise, let it pass
def self.on_error(err)
Bugsnag.notify(err)
# Or, to trigger a faiure:
# raise(err)
end
end
```

Inputs and outputs are serialized with __JSON__, so some Ruby types will be lost (eg, Symbols).

- Start a job with a handle, module, and an (optional) argument for finding data:

```ruby
# used for fetching the result later:
handle = "shakespeare-letter-count"

# will be sent to `.items(filepath)`
hamlet_path = "./shakespeare/hamlet.txt"

# Begin the process:
Bramble.map_reduce(handle, LetterCount, hamlet_path)
```

- Later, fetch the result using the handle:

```ruby
result = Bramble.get("shakespeare-letter-count")
result.running? # => false
result.finished? # => true
result.data # => { "A" => 100, "B" => 100, ... }
result.percent_finished # 1.0
result.percent_mapped # 1.0
result.percent_reduced # 1.0
result.finished_at # 2016-05-16 12:31:00 UTC
```

- Delete the saved result:

```ruby
Bramble.delete("shakespeare-letter-count")
```

Or delete everything:

```ruby
Bramble.delete_all
```

## Todo

- Write some more adapters: Memcached, ActiveRecord
- Warn if no storage is configured
- Do we have atomicity issues? Occasional test failures
- Consolidate storage in Redis to a single key? (Could some keys be evicted while others remain?)

## Development

- `rake test`