remind101 / heroku-kit

An opinionated collection of middleware for Ruby apps running on Heroku.

Heroku Kit

An opinionated collection of middleware, utilities and best practives for 12factor Ruby apps running on Heroku.

• rack-timeout for timing out long running requests.
• formatted-metrics for logging metrics to STDOUT for consumption by l2met.
• collective for collecting metrics from services.
• request_id for tracing request_id's through systems.
• rails_12factor for enabling STDOUT logging and static asset serving in production.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'heroku-kit', github: 'remind101/heroku-kit'

Usage

First, ensure that you have the http-request-id and log-runtime-metrics labs features enabled:

heroku labs:enable http-request-id
heroku labs:enable log-runtime-metrics

Rails

You're done!

Rack

Add the middlewares:

use Rack::Timeout
use Rack::RequestId
use Rack::Instrumentation

Configure your logger:

App.logger = Heroku::Kit::Logger.new

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request