Bunny is a RabbitMQ client that focuses on ease of use. It is feature complete, supports all recent RabbitMQ features and does not have any heavyweight dependencies.
One can use Bunny to make Ruby applications interoperate with other applications (both built in Ruby and not). Complexity and size may vary from simple work queues to complex multi-stage data processing workflows that involve many applications built with all kinds of technologies.
Specific examples:
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Events collectors, metrics & analytics applications can aggregate events produced by various applications (Web and not) in the company network.
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A Web application may route messages to a Java app that works with SMS delivery gateways.
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MMO games can use flexible routing RabbitMQ provides to propagate event notifications to players and locations.
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Price updates from public markets or other sources can be distributed between interested parties, from trading systems to points of sale in a specific geographic region.
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Content aggregators may update full-text search and geospatial search indexes by delegating actual indexing work to other applications over RabbitMQ.
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Companies may provide streaming/push APIs to their customers, partners or just general public.
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Continuous integration systems can distribute builds between multiple machines with various hardware and software configurations using advanced routing features of RabbitMQ.
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An application that watches updates from a real-time stream (be it markets data or Twitter stream) can propagate updates to interested parties, including Web applications that display that information in the real time.
Modern Bunny versions support
- CRuby 2.0 through 2.3
Bunny works sufficiently well on JRuby but there are known JRuby bugs in versions prior to JRuby 9000 that cause high CPU burn. JRuby users should use March Hare.
Bunny 1.7.x was the last version to support CRuby 1.9.3 and 1.8.7
Bunny 1.5.0 (including previews) and later versions only support RabbitMQ 3.3+.
Bunny 1.4.x and earlier supports RabbitMQ 2.x and 3.x.
Bunny is a mature library (started in early 2009) with a stable public API.
To install Bunny with RubyGems:
gem install bunny
To use Bunny in a project managed with Bundler:
gem "bunny", ">= 2.3.0"Below is a small snippet that demonstrates how to publish and synchronously consume ("pull API") messages with Bunny.
For a 15 minute tutorial using more practical examples, see Getting Started with RabbitMQ and Ruby using Bunny.
require "bunny"
# Start a communication session with RabbitMQ
conn = Bunny.new
conn.start
# open a channel
ch = conn.create_channel
# declare a queue
q = ch.queue("test1")
# publish a message to the default exchange which then gets routed to this queue
q.publish("Hello, everybody!")
# fetch a message from the queue
delivery_info, metadata, payload = q.pop
puts "This is the message: #{payload}"
# close the connection
conn.stopFor a 15 minute tutorial using more practical examples, see Getting Started with RabbitMQ and Ruby using Bunny.
Other documentation guides are available at rubybunny.info:
- Queues and Consumers
- Exchanges and Publishers
- AMQP 0.9.1 Model Explained
- Connecting to RabbitMQ
- Error Handling and Recovery
- TLS/SSL Support
- Bindings
- Using RabbitMQ Extensions with Bunny
- Durability and Related Matters
Bunny has a mailing list. We encourage you to also join the RabbitMQ mailing list mailing list. Feel free to ask any questions that you may have.
To subscribe for announcements of releases, important changes and so on, please follow @rubyamqp on Twitter.
More detailed announcements can be found in the blogs
If you find a bug, poor default, missing feature or find any part of the API inconvenient, please file an issue on GitHub. When filing an issue, please specify which Bunny and RabbitMQ versions you are using, provide recent RabbitMQ log file contents if possible, and try to explain what behavior you expected and why. Bonus points for contributing failing test cases.
The specs require RabbitMQ to be running locally with a specific set of vhosts
and users. RabbitMQ can be provisioned and started any that's convenient to you
as long as it has a suitable TLS keys configuration and management plugin enabled.
Make sure you have a recent version of RabbitMQ (> 3.5.3).
You can also start a clean RabbitMQ server node on your machine specifically for the bunny specs. To do so, run the following command from the base directory of the gem:
RABBITMQ_NODENAME=bunny RABBITMQ_CONFIG_FILE=./spec/config/rabbitmq RABBITMQ_ENABLED_PLUGINS_FILE=./spec/config/enabled_plugins rabbitmq-server
The specs use the RabbitMQ management plugin and require a TLS port to be available. The config files in the spec/config directory enable these.
Next up you'll need to prepare your node for the specs (just once):
RABBITMQ_NODENAME=bunny ./bin/ci/before_build
And then run the core integration suite:
RABBITMQ_NODENAME=bunny CI=true rspec
The other widely used Ruby RabbitMQ client is March Hare (JRuby-only). It's a mature library that require RabbitMQ 3.3.x or later.
First, clone the repository and run
bundle install --binstubs
then set up RabbitMQ vhosts with
./bin/ci/before_build
(if needed, set RABBITMQCTL env variable to point to rabbitmqctl you want to use)
and then run tests with
CI=true ./bin/rspec -cf documentation spec
After that create a branch and make your changes on it. Once you are done with your changes and all tests pass, submit a pull request on GitHub.
Released under the MIT license.