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Description: a ruby library for Amazon SQS. (WARNING : no longer works)
Homepage: http://rufus.rubyforge.org/rufus-sqs
Clone URL: git://github.com/jmettraux/rufus-sqs.git
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README.rdoc

rufus-sqs

WARNING : as of 2008/08/21, this gem does no longer work.

Try to use the right_aws gem :

rightscale.rubyforge.org/right_aws_gem_doc/

getting it

  sudo gem install -y rufus-sqs

or at

rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=4812

usage

At first, ‘rufus-sqs’ expects to find the Amazon WebServices keys in four environment variables : AMAZON_KEY_ID, AMAZON_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AMAZON_ACCESS_KEY and AMAZON_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

(Like the gem "aws-s3" amazon.rubyforge.org/ does).

For example, I store them in a file named .amazon that gets loaded when necessary :

  export AMAZON_KEY_ID=171A375Y3DY838652G2
  export AMAZON_ACCESS_KEY_ID=17r37R45YZDY252G2

  export AMAZON_ACCESS_KEY=iOML8QLPy5DB5sCUoS0LbJcA2/OChUUNky
  export AMAZON_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=ibMU8QfPDB5sCUgS0NLbScA2/OChUHNy

Some example code :

  qs = Rufus::SQS::QueueService.new

  qs.create_queue "mytestqueue"

  msg = "hello SQS world !"

  msg_id = qs.put_message "mytestqueue", msg

  put msg_id
    # will print something like
    # 0MQFS772Z73BG5R9QD6V|A717CAQHX0CS7N69WY71|M57DGQ7TB7T3MFY3J1X0

  sleep 1

  msgs = qs.get_messages "mytestqueue"

  puts msgs[0].message_body
    # => 'hello SQS world !"

  qs.delete_queue "mytestqueue"

more at Rufus::SQS::QueueService

dependencies

The gem ‘rufus-verbs’ (rufus.rubyforge.org/rufus-verbs) and its dependencies.

mailing list

On the rufus-ruby list :

groups.google.com/group/rufus-ruby

issue tracker

github.com/jmettraux/rufus-sqs/issues

source

github.com/jmettraux/rufus-sqs

  git clone git://github.com/jmettraux/rufus-sqs.git

author

John Mettraux, jmettraux@gmail.com jmettraux.wordpress.com

the rest of Rufus

rufus.rubyforge.org

license

MIT