# Singleton

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Convenience wrapper library around Erlang's `global` module to ensure
a single instance of a process is kept running on a cluster of nodes.


## Installation

The package can be installed as:

  1. Add `singleton` to your list of dependencies in `mix.exs`:

    ```elixir
    def deps do
      [{:singleton, "~> 1.0.0"}]
    end
    ```

  2. Ensure `singleton` is started before your application:

    ```elixir
    def application do
      [applications: [:singleton]]
    end
    ```

## Usage

Use `Singleton.start_child/3` to start a unique GenServer process.

    Singleton.start_child(MyServer, [1], {:myserver, 1})

Execute this command on all nodes. The `MyServer` GenServer is now
globally registered under the name `{:global, {:myserver, 1}}`.

As soon as you connect nodes together, you'll see logger messages
like:

    04:56:29.003 [info]  global: Name conflict terminating {MyServer, #PID<12501.68.0>}

When you now stop (or disconnect) the node on which the singleton
process runs, you'll see it get started on one of the other nodes.