MQ Light is designed to allow applications to exchange discrete pieces of information in the form of messages. This might sound a lot like TCP/IP networking, and MQ Light does use TCP/IP under the covers, but MQ Light takes away much of the complexity and provides a higher level set of abstractions to build your applications with.
This Ruby gem provides the high-level API by which you can interact with the MQ Light runtime.
See https://developer.ibm.com/messaging/mq-light/ for more details.
Ruby, as a language, has a few different implementations. Currently, the MQ Light gem only supports the reference implementation, often referred to as Ruby MRI ("Matz's Ruby Interpreter").
You will need a Ruby 1.9.x runtime environment or newer to use the MQ Light API module. This can be installed from https://www.ruby-lang.org/, or by using your operating system's package manager.
The following are the currently supported platform architectures:
- 64-bit runtime on Linux (x64)
- 64-bit runtime on Mac OS X (x64)
You will receive an error if you attempt to use any other combination.
This Ruby gem is subject to the follow limitations:
- Requires an 1.0.2 release of the MQ Light server
- No TLS/SSL support for secure encrypted connections for platform Mac (Mac OpenSSL 0.9.8 does not support TLS 1.2)
Install using gem:
gem install mqlight
Alternatively, add 'mqlight' as a runtime dependency in your gemspec / Gemfile.
The API has been documented using Yardoc tag formatting within the Ruby code and can either be viewed online from the Documentation link at https://rubygems.org/gems/mqlight, or locally by running the YARD tooling.
To run the samples, install the module via gem and navigate to the
<install path>/samples
folder, where the <install path>
can be determined
from the output of gem list --details mqlight
.
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- Support for sending and receiving
- Support for 'at-most-once' and 'at-least-once' messaging.
- Support for wildcard subscriptions.
- Support for shared subscriptions.
- Support for multiple services
- Support for round-tripping binary or JSON messages
- Support for dealing with malformed messages
- Support for SASL
- Support for SSL on Linux
- Initial beta release.
- Support for sending and receiving 'at-most-once' messages.
- Support for wildcard subscriptions.
- Support for shared subscriptions.