RabbitMQ with Ruby on Rails in 2018 for Web Application Development
An Introduction to RabbitMQ:
RabbitMQ is a message broker software where applications connect to the queue and transfer a message onto it.
When one application server sends the request to another application server, RabbitMQ works as a queue manager where requests handled and served one by one.
Message transferring is done from one application to another through RabbitMQ. RabbitMQ uses the standard Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) to keep message request in queues and serve easily. A message may contain any information like simple text transfer or task that need to process on another server.
This RabbitMQ software saves messages in the queue and
Why should we use RabbitMQ with Ruby on Rails?
Message broker works on the producer, broker
Queued messages will also use to send the messages or task to multiple
Let take
I have rails server running as producer and
Rails server send multiple
In that case, RabbitMQ can fulfill the role of load balancing and messages passing by keeping the request coming from rails server in
AMQP role in RabbitMQ:
AMQP store and forward messages to consumers, like same as SMTP protocol use to deliver mail to mailboxes
A virtual channel
How to use RabbitMQ in Rails application?
Using Bunny ruby RabbitMQ client, we can integrate RabbitMq with rails application.
There are some gems available to start with RabbitMQ in ruby like
gem “bunny”
Bunny help rails application to interoperate with
gem ‘amqp’
RabbitMQ installation commands in Ubuntu:
1] Step 1: Update system
sudo apt-get update
2] Step 2: Install Erlang
RabbitMQ is written in Erlang, you need to install Erlang before you can use it:
b] sudo dpkg -i esl-erlang_20.1-1\~ubuntu\~xenial_amd64.deb
3] Step 3: Install RabbitMQ
sudo apt-get install rabbitmq-server
4] Step 4: Start the Server:
sudo systemctl start rabbitmq-server.service
sudo systemctl enable rabbitmq-server.service
Thus if you are looking for web development services which are faster, reliable, redundant and scalable then you can definitely opt for Ruby on Rails RabbitMQ.