Easy RabbitMQ Start/Stop Rake tasks for OSX

rabbitmq.rake

#
# Don't want to run PostgreSQL as a service? Want to manually start and stop it?
#  >> bundle exec rake rabbitmq:mac:start 
#  >> bundle exec rake rabbitmq:mac:stop
#

namespace :rabbitmq do
  namespace :mac do

    desc "Starts a Mac brew installed RabbitMQ server."
    task :start do
      puts "Starting detached server..."
      result = %x[rabbitmq-server -detached]
      puts result
    end

    desc "Stops a Mac brew installed RabbitMQ server."
    task :stop do
      puts "Stoping detached server..."
      result = %x[rabbitmqctl stop]
      puts result
    end

  end
end