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# Consumes lines from a Kafka partition and writes them to STDOUT.
#
# You need to define the environment variable KAFKA_BROKERS for this
# to work, e.g.
#
#     export KAFKA_BROKERS=localhost:9092
#

$LOAD_PATH.unshift(File.expand_path("../../lib", __FILE__))

require "kafka"

# We don't want log output to clutter the console. Replace `StringIO.new`
# with e.g. `$stderr` if you want to see what's happening under the hood.
logger = Logger.new(StringIO.new)

brokers = ENV.fetch("KAFKA_BROKERS").split(",")

# Make sure to create this topic in your Kafka cluster or configure the
# cluster to auto-create topics.
topic = "text"

kafka = Kafka.new(
  seed_brokers: brokers,
  client_id: "simple-consumer",
  socket_timeout: 20,
  logger: logger,
)

begin
  offset = :latest
  partition = 0

  loop do
    messages = kafka.fetch_messages(
      topic: topic,
      partition: partition,
      offset: offset
    )

    messages.each do |message|
      puts message.value
      offset = message.offset + 1
    end
  end
ensure
  kafka.close
end

Version data entries

9 entries across 9 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
ruby-kafka-0.3.3	examples/simple-consumer.rb
ruby-kafka-0.3.2	examples/simple-consumer.rb
ruby-kafka-0.3.1	examples/simple-consumer.rb
ruby-kafka-0.3.0	examples/simple-consumer.rb
ruby-kafka-0.2.0	examples/simple-consumer.rb
ruby-kafka-0.1.7	examples/simple-consumer.rb
ruby-kafka-0.1.6	examples/simple-consumer.rb
ruby-kafka-0.1.5	examples/simple-consumer.rb
ruby-kafka-0.1.4	examples/simple-consumer.rb