RequestThrottler

When you are creating apis you want them to safe from a robot requests here is the gem to safe you from these kind of traffic. for example a hacker created a script to make 1 DOS attack to your site so you can save yourself from that attack.

pre-requirement

You should have redis gem in your gemfile redis up and running. you need to set a redis path in you initializers/request_throttler.rb

$ config.store = Redis.new(url: 'localhost:6379', namespace: 'request_throttler')

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'request_throttler'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install request_throttler

To copy request throttler config file:

$ rails g request_throttler

Usage

create a method to use before filter for you all requests to check the threshold for you apis use this mehtod:

$ include RequestThrottler # in your applicatio controller
$ threshold?(key) # true or false

If its value true then take action. the key can be request user system ip or access_token

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/dilkhush/request_throttler/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request