Installation

Before continuing, be sure you have Oban up and running in your app!

Oban.Pro is delivered as a hex package named oban_pro, which is published privately to our self-hosted package repository.

Before you can pull the package into your application you need to add a new oban hex repo. First, grab the OBAN_KEY_FINGERPRINT and OBAN_LICENSE_KEY from your account page. Then, ensure hex is up-to-date:

mix local.hex --force

Finally, run the following mix hex.repo command:

mix hex.repo add oban https://getoban.pro/repo \
  --fetch-public-key $OBAN_KEY_FINGERPRINT \
  --auth-key $OBAN_LICENSE_KEY

⚠️ You'll also need to authenticate on any other development machines, build servers and CI instances. There are also guides to help with authenticating on Gigalixir and Heroku.

Now that you're authenticated you're ready to add oban_pro as a dependency for your application. Open mix.exs and add the following line:

{:oban_pro, "~> 0.9", repo: "oban"}

Now fetch your dependencies:

$ mix deps.get

There isn't any direct configuration for Oban.Pro. Instead, you configure Oban to run an engine or plugins directly and use the various workers. For example, to use the Lifeline plugin you'd add it to the Oban config within config.exs:

config :my_app, Oban,
  engine: Oban.Pro.Queue.SmartEngine,
  repo: MyApp.Repo,
  queues: [alpha: 10, gamma: 10, delta: 10],
  plugins: [Oban.Pro.Plugins.Lifeline]

Now you're ready to start using the smart engine, various plugins and workers!

Authorizing on Gigalixir

If your app runs on Gigalixir you can use a buildpack hook to authenticate with the private oban repo.

First, set your license key on Gigalixir:

gigalixir config:set OBAN_LICENSE_KEY="YOUR OBAN LICENSE KEY"
gigalixir config:set OBAN_KEY_FINGERPRINT="THE PUBLIC KEY FINGERPRINT"

Then add the hook to the end of your elixir_buildpack.config:

hook_pre_fetch_dependencies="mix hex.repo add oban https://getoban.pro/repo \
    --fetch-public-key ${OBAN_KEY_FINGERPRINT} \
    --auth-key ${OBAN_LICENSE_KEY}"

Authorizing on Heroku

If your app runs on Heroku using the Elixir Buildpack (rather than Docker) you'll need to use compilation hook to authorize hex before fetching dependencies.

First, set your license key on Heroku:

heroku config:set OBAN_LICENSE_KEY="YOUR OBAN LICENSE KEY"
heroku config:set OBAN_KEY_FINGERPRINT="THE PUBLIC KEY FINGERPRINT"

Next, add a small shell script to your application in ./bin/predeps:

#!/bin/bash

mix hex.repo add oban https://getoban.pro/repo \
    --fetch-public-key ${OBAN_KEY_FINGERPRINT} \
    --auth-key ${OBAN_LICENSE_KEY}

Finally, set the predeps script within elixir_buildpack.config:

hook_pre_fetch_dependencies="./bin/predeps"