Message Queues in Ruby on Rails

Question

What message queues are people using for their Rails apps and what was the driving force behind the decision to choose it. Does the latest Twitter publicity over their in ho

Answer 1

I would recommend delayed-job as a dead simple solution if you don't expect any heavy load. Pros: easy to setup, easy to monitor, simple code, doesn't have any external dependencies. Previously we used ActiveMessaging (with ActiveMQ and stomp), but it was an overkill for our project, so we switched to delayed_job for its simplicity.

Anyway, if you need very mature and fast solution, ActiveMQ is a very good choice. If you don't want to spend too much time on maintaining full-scale message queueing solution you don't really need, delayed_job is a way to go. Here's a good article about Scribd experience with ActiveMQ.