RingBuffer is an implementation of a ring or circular buffer data structure, internally based on Erlang's :queue.

A RingBuffer has a :max_size which is specifed at creation via new/1.

Calling put/2 on a RingBuffer whose :size is less than its :max_size will:

• add the item to the buffer
• increment the :size of the buffer
• set :evicted to nil (since no item was evicted by the call to put/2)

Calling put/2 on a RingBuffer whose :size is equal to its :max_size will:

• add the item to the buffer
• maintain :size equal to :max_size
• set :evicted to the oldest item in the buffer preceding the call to put/2

Thus, this implementation offers the ability to access the item that was evicted from the buffer as the result of the the most recent call to put/2 (if any) via the :evicted field of the %RingBuffer{} struct.

See the doctests in RingBuffer.ex and test cases in ring_buffer_test.exs for examples of using RingBuffer.

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