ActiveMessaging is an attempt to bring the simplicity and elegance of rails development to the world of messaging. Messaging, (or event-driven architecture) is widely used for enterprise integration, with frameworks such as Java’s JMS, and products such as ActiveMQ, Tibco, IBM MQSeries, etc.

ActiveMessaging is a generic framework to ease using messaging, but is not tied to any particular messaging system - in fact, it now has support for Stomp, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Beanstalk, JMS (using StompConnect or [JMSWithJRuby direct on JRuby]), WebSphere MQ, and the all-Ruby ReliableMessaging.

Here’s a sample of a processor class that handles incoming messages:

class HelloWorldProcessor < ActiveMessaging::Processor

subscribes_to :hello_world

def on_message(message)
puts "received: " + message
end

end

Usage¶ ↑

$ gem 'activemessaging', '0.7.1',  :git => 'git@github.com:lcn-com/activemessaging.git', :require => false
$ # do not require in Gemfile because some of the environment variables are not available at that point

$ # Add to initializers
$ require 'activemessaging'

h1. Support

Best bet is the google groups mailing list:

groups.google.com/group/activemessaging-discuss