Thrifty

Tired of manually regenerating your Thrift interface code every time the definition changes? Thrifty manages your Thrift interface definitions behind the scenes.

Usage

require 'thrifty'
Thrifty.register('my_interface.thrift')

Thrifty.require('generated_service')
GeneratedService.do_things

See the examples directory for a complete working example.

Precompiling

When using Thrifty in production, you'll likely want to precompile your Thrift IDLs. The way I'd recommend doing this is as follows:

In lib/myapp/thrift.rb:

require 'thrifty'
Thrifty.register('my_interface.thrift', relative_to: __FILE__, build_root: 'build')

Your build step will then just be:

require 'myapp/thrift'
Thrifty.compile_all

Caveats

You must have a working thrift compiler on your PATH. (That is, you should be able to just type 'thrift'.) Thrifty does not currently statically check that this is the case.

TODO

• Statically ensure there's a thrift compiler on the PATH.
• Autorequire of all generated Thrift files?