lightstep-tracer-ruby

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'lightstep-tracer'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install lightstep-tracer

Getting started

require 'lightstep-tracer'

# Initialize the singleton tracer
LightStep.init_global_tracer('lightstep/ruby/example', '{your_access_token}')

# Create a basic span and attach a log to the span
span = LightStep.start_span('my_span')
span.log_event('hello world', 'count' => 42)

# Create a child span (and add some artificial delays to illustrate the timing)
sleep(0.1)
child = LightStep.start_span('my_child', parent: span)
sleep(0.2)
child.finish
sleep(0.1)
span.finish

# Flush any enqueued data before program exit
LightStep.instance.flush

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run make test to run the tests.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.