Qrack: A Ruby implementation of the AMQP wire protocol
About
The aim of the Qrack project is to produce a Ruby implementation of the AMQP wire protocol that can be used as the basis for Ruby AMQP-compliant messaging products. If done properly it could become a sort of Rack for the Ruby AMQP messaging community.
amqp written by Aman Gupta already contains an implementation which will be used as the basis for this project. Some initial thoughts -
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The RabbitMQ AMQP JSON specification documents will be the source from which Ruby protocol classes will be generated due to licensing issues concerning the AMQP XML specification documents.
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Qrack should provide all of the Ruby classes necessary to implement the AMQP specification communication functionality whether mandatory or otherwise.
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Qrack should generate the classes from a particular version of the AMQP specification. Therefore, if you generate from the 0-9-1 spec you get a set of 0-9-1 protocol classes.
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A JSON specification will only need to be parsed once to produce the protocol classes and then the library will be ready for use.
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There should be no dependency on particular versions of the AMQP JSON specification.
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Qrack should be vendor neutral.
This project is at an early stage and we welcome suggestions and contributions to help make it a success.
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Alexis for coming up with the name.