RedisMQ

A cheap and naive implementation of topic exchanges on top of Redis.

This project came about to help me decouple some smaller projects that already rely on Redis and don't need the weight of another dependancy.

It is working well enough, but there are some limitations that you should be aware of:

• tested on ruby 1.9 only
• all logic is client-side ; there is no central broker to ensure that everyone is playing by the rules
• publish is O(n) - the larger the pool of queues-per-topic, the longer it takes to publish

If you need a really robust message bus, you should give serious consideration to RabbitMQ.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'redismq'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install redismq

The client will expects to find a valid redis URI at either ENV['REDISMQ_URL'] or ENV['REDISTOGO_URL], and will fall back to redis://localhost:6379.

require 'redismq'

client = RedisMQ::Client.new

# pretend a customer signed up, publish his info to the 'customer.signup' topic
client.publish('customer.signup', { id: 1 })

require 'redismq'

client = RedisMQ::Client.new

# ensure that all items sent to customer.signup wind up in the email queue
client.bind('customer.signup', 'email')

# assume that a message has been sent...
client.pop('email')
# {:header=>{:topic=>"customer.signup"}, :payload=>{:id=>1}}

# or, block and wait for something to hit the queue
client.bpop('email')

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request