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joshwa
Has anyone actually looked at this code yet? Documentation?

Wish they'd put up a SVN browser so I don't have to download it to see what it looks like.

ijoshua
I looked at it very briefly. The codebase is actually pretty small. It appears to depend heavily on memcached.
codeslinger
Yay! Finally... Blaine was talking about releasing this for months; glad he finally got around to it :)
bayareaguy
It's interesting that its own server (starling) uses the Memcached protocol. From the readme:

  Starling - a light weight server for reliable distributed message passing.

  = Synopsis

  # Start the Starling server as a daemonized process:
  starling -h 192.168.1.1 -d

  # Put messages onto a queue:
  require 'memcache'
  starling = MemCache.new('192.168.1.1:22122')
  starling.set('my_queue', 12345)

  # Get messages from the queue:
  require 'memcache'
  starling = MemCache.new('192.168.1.1:22122')
  loop { puts starling.get('my_queue') }