Light Weight Event System bindings for Ruby

require 'lwes'

# create an Emitter which may be used for the lifetime of your process
emitter = LWES::Emitter.new(:address => '224.1.1.11',
                            :port => 12345,
                            :heartbeat => 30, # nil to disable
                            :ttl => 1) # nil for default TTL(3)

# parse your ESF file at startup, the example below assumes you
# have "Event1" and "Event2" defined in your ESF file:
type_db = LWES::TypeDB.new("my_events.esf")

# create classes to use, by default and to encourage DRY-ness,
# we map each event in the ESF file to a class
# Optionally, you may specify :parent => module/namespace
type_db.create_classes! :parent => MyApp

# inside your application, you may now do this to slowly build up
# fields for the event
my_event = MyApp::Event1.new
my_event.started = Time.now.to_i
my_event.remote_addr = "192.168.0.1"
# ...do a lot of stuff here in between...
my_event.field1 = value1
my_event.field2 = value2
my_event.field3 = value3
my_event.finished = Time.now.to_i
emitter << my_event

# Alternatively, if you know ahead of time all the fields you want to
# set for an event, you can emit an event in one step:

emitter.emit MyApp::Event2, :field1 => value1, :field2 => value2 # ...