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

Here are a few Ruby/Rails solutions, one or more of these may be a good fit depending on your needs:

http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd

http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=19781

http://backgroundrb.rubyforge.org

And, a hosted solution from Amazon which would make a great queue for sharing between Ruby/Rails and other components of a larger system:

http://aws.amazon.com/sqs

Hope this helps!