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

Rany Keddo gave a useful presentation about Starling + Workling at RailsConf Europe last year. He compared the different solutions available at the time.

Twitter's latest move away from Starling + Workling probably doesn't mean much to the regular rails app. They have a lot more issues of scale and probably have legacy issues with their datastore that prevents them from scaling past their current implementation.

Beanstalkd is a good alternative, simply because it runs as a daemon and has wrappers in other scripting languages (if you happen to change direction in the future or have different components written in other languages).

This link also has a good comparison of pros-cons of the various rails solutions available.