circuit_breaker

CircuitBreaker is a relatively simple Ruby mixin that will wrap a call to a given service in a circuit breaker pattern. The circuit starts off "closed" meaning that all calls will go through. However, consecutive failures are recorded and after a threshold is reached, the circuit will "trip", setting the circuit into an "open" state. In an "open" state, every call to the service will fail by raising CircuitBrokenException. The circuit will remain in an "open" state until the failure ti