RabbitMQ playground Install dependencies bundle install Start consumer ./consumer.rb Publish message ./publisher.rb 'a message' 'another message' Show queue status ./status queue_name Interesting Meta Keys: :message_id :reply_to :correlation :timestamp :arguments Links: http://rubybunny.info/articles/queues.html http://rubybunny.info/articles/durability.html http://rubybunny.info/articles/exchanges.html