RabbitMq bunny gem vs sneakers

Question

I am new to RabbitMq. We are evaluating it for production use with rails app, currently for background mailing system. RabbitMq tutorial presents bunny gem. On it's other gem list, there is also sneakers gem.

It would be useful to know, what are the difference between them, and which one is more useful to create a simple background mailing system ?

Sneak

I would also like to know. As far as I can tell bunny runs a subscription receive block in it's own thread. Sneakers uses bunny internally and runs a worker in it's own thread. – Witte

Answer 1

Bunny is your RabbitMQ connection wrapper. Send, receive, subscribe, etc.

Sneakers is a framework for a worker-centric approach. It uses Bunny to wrap its connections. You'd use Sneakers if you needed background processing in a Rails application or if you had different worker classes and wanted to standardize your approach.

Snowflake

I think both of them supply both functionalities, publish and process. They have api's for publish and pull/subscribe to jobs. In Bunny for example I did both. – Sneak

You're totally right. I only started playing with it. I'll edit my answer. – Snowflake

What is the right way to spawn the 'listener' process? The one that pulls items from the queue? – Regret