Trapeze - AMQP Web Routing¶ ↑

Trapeze-rb provides a Ruby-Rack binding for the Trapeze (github.com/paulj/trapeze) AMQP web router and balancer. Please see the Trapeze pages for more details.

Getting Started¶ ↑

Installing¶ ↑

Trapeze currently needs to be installed via source with:

git clone git://github.com/paulj/trapeze-rb.git
cd trapeze-rb
rake build install

You’ll also need a Trapeze server running. Please see github.com/paulj/trapeze/blob/master/README.rdoc for instructions on getting this installed and running.

Running an application via the trapeze helper¶ ↑

Trapeze provides a Rack (rack.rubyforge.org) adapter, allowing any standard Rack application to be made available. It also bundles a script called trapeze that will start up an instance of Thin using Trapeze (AMQP) as a backend. This section will cover running a simple Sinatra application with the trapeze helper.

Firstly, say we have a simple Sinatra application (called simple-app.rb):

require 'rubygems'
require 'sinatra'

get '/' do
  "Hello World"
end

To run with the trapeze adapter, you’ll need a simple rackup configuration file. Create a config.ru such as:

require 'simple-app'

set :run, false

run Sinatra::Application

From the command line, you can now start this application with a command line such as:

trapezerb -k "get.localhost.#" -n simple-ruby-app -R config.ru start

Thin should boot, and provide output such as:

>> Thin web server (v1.0.0 codename That's What She Said)
>> Maximum connections set to 1024
>> Listening on simple-ruby-app via localhost, CTRL+C to stop

You can now visit localhost:55672 to see you application.

Configuring Sinatra to use Trapeze as the default server¶ ↑

To make a Sintatra application run Trapeze instead of thin, a simple script such as the following can be used:

require 'rubygems'
require 'sinatra'
require 'trapeze'

set :Host, 'localhost'
set :Port, 'get.localhost.#'
set :Queue_Name, 'simple'

get '/' do
  "Hello World"
end

This instructs Sinatra to start Trapeze as the Rack adapter; and informs trapeze that it should use an server available at localhost; and informs trapeze that it should listen to any GET requests made to the localhost domain.

You can now run the application with:

ruby standalone-app.rb

You should see it startup with something like:

== Sinatra/0.9.2 has taken the stage on *.localhost.*./.# for development with backup from Trapeze

You can now visit localhost:55672, and see you own Sinatra app serving pages!

Software License¶ ↑

Copyright (c) 2009 Paul Jones <[email protected]>
Copyright (c) 2009 LShift Ltd. <[email protected]>

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