The simulator assumes that you have RabbitMQ installed on the local instance where you will be running the simulator.

To install RabbitMQ go here

http://www.rabbitmq.com/download.html

To install the simulator

git clone git@github.com:stormasm/spinnakr-generic-simulator.git
bundle install

To run the simulator you must be in the lib directory

To see the options that you can pass into the simulator:

ruby sim.rb -h

Verbosity

All output from the simulator is available in verbose mode

ruby sim.rb -v

Exchange Name

The default exchange name where events get published is test.spnee.generic

To define an alternate exchange name to publish to

ruby sim.rb -e 'test.spnee.generictwo'

Account Id Number

The simulator always passes in the same account id number.

The default account id number is 1.

To change the account id number to 2

ruby sim.rb -t 2

To change the account id number to 3

ruby sim.rb -t 3

Messages

The default number of messages that get published out is 2

To publish out more than 2 messages and instead publish 10 messages

ruby sim.rb -n 10

Iterations

You have the option of publishing n messages once and only once.

However, you can also publish n messages i times by defining the number of iterations.

If you decide to publish 6 messages inside 4 iterations then you would run this command

ruby sim.rb -v -n 6 -i 4

Sleep

By default the publisher sleeps for 10 seconds after each iteration, if you want to only sleep for 3 seconds instead of 10 seconds you would issue this command

ruby sim.rb -v -n 6 -i 4 -s 3

Forever

The simulator also gives you the ability to run forever. If you decide you want to publish for eternity then simply pass in the forever flag.

r sim.rb -v -n 6 -i 4 -s 3 -f

Time

Each event has a timestamp associated with it. To simulate a period of time over n days you pass in a flag which tells the simulator what day range you want to simulate.

The default day interval is 10 days. Meaning the time stamps will have a min time of 10 days ago and a max time of 10 days from now.

If you want to simulate 20 days forward and 20 days back then pass in the d flag.

r sim.rb -d 20

Dimension String

By default the dimension string is visit-useragent.

You can see that by issuing this command and looking at the verbose output

ruby sim.rb -v

If you want a different dimension string then you can issue these commands

ruby sim.rb -m visit-uuid
ruby sim.rb -m job-skills

Extra examples

This will publish 20 messages once and only once to an alternate exchange.

ruby sim.rb -n 20 -e 'test.spnee.generictwo'

Of course you can always just run the default publisher simply with this command

ruby sim.rb