This guide covers the compatibility of the Ruby amqp gem with various versions of RabbitMQ messaging broker.
This guide covers Ruby amqp gem 1.5.x.
amqp gem before 0.8.0 (0.6.x, 0.7.x) series implemented (most of) the AMQP 0.8 specification. amqp gem 0.8.0 and later versions implement AMQP 0.9.1 and thus requires RabbitMQ version 2.0 or later.
amqp gem 0.8.0 and later versions implement AMQP 0.9.1 and thus require RabbitMQ version 2.0 or later
Ubuntu and Debian have both shipped with old RabbitMQ versions in the past that only support AMQP protocol 0.8. Ruby amqp gem 0.8.0 and later will not work with RabbitMQ versions before 2.0.0.
We strongly recommend that you use the RabbitMQ apt repository that has recent versions of RabbitMQ.
There is a Chef cookbook for RabbitMQ that installs recent versions from the rabbitmq.com apt repository. It also has LWPRs (providers) for managing users and vhosts.
There is a RabbitMQ Puppet module by the Puppet Labs team. It uses .deb packages from Debian testing and unstable repositories. Note that it has two dependencies:
Note that before 1.7.0, RabbitMQ did not support TLS. In order to have TLS support, RabbitMQ 1.7.0 requires
and recommends using Erlang R141B that ships with Erlang SSL 4.0.1. Learn more in our Using TLS (SSL) guide.
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