Amazon's Simple Queue Service with Node.js and Ruby - http://bit.ly/Nwn0Q1

node_send.coffee

aws = require ('aws-lib')

access_key_id = "<Your access key id>"
secret_access_key = "<Your secret access key>"

options = {
  "path" : "<Your queue URL, just the /accountid/queue_name is needed>"  
}

sqs = aws.createSQSClient(access_key_id, secret_access_key, options)

outbound = {
  MessageBody : JSON.stringify({ 
    data: "Test Message", 
    timestamp: new Date().getTime()
    })  
}

sqs.call "SendMessage", outbound, (err, result) ->
  if err then console.log "SendMessage error: #{err}"

ruby_receive.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'aws-sdk'
require 'json'

sqs = AWS::SQS.new(
    :access_key_id => '<Your access key id>',
    :secret_access_key => '<Your secret access key>')
    
url = "<Your queue URL>"

receive = sqs.queues[url].receive_message()
if receive
  puts JSON.parse(receive.body)
  receive.delete
end