intro Amazon SQS

amazon_sqs.rb

require 'right_aws'

# aws credits
aws_access_key = {
  :id     => "your key goes here",
  :secret => "your secret access key goes here"
}

# initialize new connection to amazon sqs broker
sqs = RightAws::SqsGen2.new(aws_access_key[:id], aws_access_key[:secret]) 
 
# initialize queue
q = sqs.queue("queue_name")
 
# this will serialize and submit the message Yo!
# to your queue named "queue_name"
q.push("Yo!") 

# this will pop a message off of the queue named "queue_name"
returned_msg = q.pop

# will remove the message from the queue
returned_msg.delete