gistfile1.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# encoding: utf-8

require "rubygems"
require "bundler"
Bundler.setup

require 'amqp'

EventMachine.run do
  connection = AMQP.connect(:host => 'localhost', :user => 'guest', :pass => 'guest')
  puts "Connecting to AMQP broker. Running #{AMQP::VERSION} version of the gem..."
  channel  = AMQP::Channel.new(connection)
  queue    = channel.queue("reservations.local")
  exchange = channel.default_exchange
  puts "publishing"
  exchange.publish "test", :routing_key => 'reservations.local', :ack => true
  connection.close { EventMachine.stop }
end