lukemelia / jit_observer

JitObserver

• github.com/lukemelia/jit_observer

Description

Rails plugin to provide an alternative to ActiveRecord::Observer that does not force immediate loads of the observed models.

Synopsis

In a Rails application with lots of observers and models, boot time can be unnecessarily slowed due to the implementation of ActiveRecord::Observer. AR::Observer resolves the class names of models its instances observe and loads them.

JitObserver does not immediately resolve the observed classes, but instead registers the observer and then attaches it when the observed class is first loaded. (This is accomplished by adding a inherited hook to the Observable module).

Usage

Specify the observed class as a string or symbol. (Specifying the observed class as a constant will work but negate the just-in-time aspect of JitObserver since it will result in an immediate load of the model)

 class AnotherObserver < JitObserver
   observe :foo, :bar

   def after_create
     ...
   end
 end

 class AnotherObserver < JitObserver
   observe :foo, :bar

   def after_create
     ...
   end
 end

Specifying observed class name implicitly via the name of the observer class is supported. For example, the following will observe the Foo class:

 class FooObserver < JitObserver
   def after_create
     ...
   end
 end

Configuring observers in environment.rb is unchanged from standard observers. I use:

 config.active_record.observers = Dir["#{RAILS_ROOT}/app/observers/**/*.rb"].map do |file|
   File.expand_path(file).gsub("#{RAILS_ROOT}/app/observers/", "").gsub(/\.rb$/, "")
 end

You can also use the standard syntax provided in the default environment.rb comments.

Authors

• Maintained by Luke Melia
• Thanks to Weplay (weplay.com) for sponsoring development and supporting open sourcing it from the start