[Ruby Agent Proposal] Exploration and practice of Ruby in the skywalking ecosystem

[CodePrometheus]

The plan is still being considered, researched and implemented, and I will update it gradually later.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JTpK95m8H5OQNPyF_4VqwO-K_ygp-5WVYOuYUFkJxwc

[wu-sheng]

It is good to have this proposal. I would like to suggest, do you consider supporting adding a new field to the target class. Java agent has this mechanism to cache values, such as connection metadata to help on build span and span's peer.

[CodePrometheus]

DynamicField I'm exploring whether Ruby could achieve this.

[wu-sheng]

How is this feature? As it is very performance relative, I hope we have a conclusion for the pre-release.

[CodePrometheus]

I add it in enhance instance, it will add a new field to the target class, and generat setter and getter methods.

[wu-sheng]

I there any update about this new agent.

[CodePrometheus]

Currently the following features from the 0.1 pre-release plan have been completed:
1.Implemented agent startup, configuration, and plugin-loading.
2.Initially completed the scheduling tool, with interface-level implementations of report_instance_properties and keep_alive.
3.Finished most of the tracing-related functionalities, including Span, TraceContext, etc.

Currently in progress:
1.Continuing to complete tracing and report traceSegment to OAP.
2.Setting up e2e testing and completing GitHub Actions.

[wu-sheng]

It looks like we are better to start asking for establish new sub-project and sub-repo? Could you write a proposal to the mailing list?

[CodePrometheus]

Writing an email is fine, I would like to know this application is for permission to establish a repo or for actually creating a new repo, I mean, could an existing repo cp/skywalking-ruby be transferred to Apache?

[wu-sheng]

Transferring mean donation, that requires IP clearance process.
As you are targeting this to upstream directly, I would say your local part is a draft, and we establish a new repo.

[CodePrometheus]

OK, no problem.

[CodePrometheus]

I'm verifying the core links these days, and will send out the proposal as soon as possible.

[wu-sheng]

We will have time to add plugin tests like other agents, before the 1st release(0.1). Then keep polishing that.

[CodePrometheus]

OK, that sounds good.

[wu-sheng]

The repo has been created, https://github.com/apache/skywalking-ruby