Message Queue for Rails?

rubyonrails-talk
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So, MQ was an active area for a while with several contenders like AP4R.

Many libs seemed focused on triggering long or scheduled processes, and not really for connecting many small apps together to build responses for a Rails front-end app.

After some googling, it seems like activity has dies off. AP4R seems to have stalled (I can't find anything newer than a year old). None of the projects that surfaced from 05 through 08 seems to have become the de facto "winner" that I can see.

I'm looking for a MQ system that's not about just offloading long or scheduled activities, but for real-time messaging to connect several small independent Rails/Ruby apps to build a Rails page.

I'm hoping to find something that can handle a number of different data formats for replies (XML, YAML, native AR objects or maybe even marshalled ruby objects).

Any suggestions on the best contenders?

-- gw

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Jruby + JMS is your best bet. That is what I do and works great.

Adam

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After continuing to sift through older articles and following up, I'm finding som e stuff about Apache's ActiveMQ / ActiveMessaging / STOMP. Still sorting through what it does and how it integrates. Most info is again from 2007. Anyone have any recent interaction with this setup?

-- gw

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Maik Schmidt's PragProg-book "Enterprise Recipes with Ruby and Rails" may help you out :wink: He's using ActiveMQ and is integrating JMS with Ruby as well as Active Messaging.

my2cents,

Chris