very old rabbitmq + ruby demo (http://somic.org/2008/06/24/ruby-amqp-rabbitmq-example/)

disttailf.rb

#!/usr/bin/ruby -I/usr/local/qpid-svn/qpid/ruby
#
#
__doc__ = %q(

disttailf.rb - distributed "tail -f"

Aggregates "tail -f" output from multiple machines and multiple files
into a single RabbitMQ pubsub queue (kind of splunk's log consolidation
function)

Usage:
Producer: disttailf.rb [-s broker_host] [-p broker_port] [-x spec_xml] file ...
Consumer: disttailf.rb [-s broker_host] [-p broker_port] [-x spec_xml] -c

)

require 'qpid'
require 'socket'

def consumer(client, ch)
    myqueue = ch.queue_declare()
    ch.queue_bind(:queue=>myqueue.queue, :exchange=>'amq.topic',
                    :routing_key=>'disttailf.#')
    cons = ch.basic_consume(:queue=>myqueue.queue, :no_ack => true)
    ruby_queue = client.queue(cons.consumer_tag)

    while true
        raise "Rabbitmq broker disconnected" if client.closed?
        begin
          msg = ruby_queue.pop(non_block=true)
          puts "== #{msg.content.headers[:headers]} " \
                "#{msg.routing_key.split('.')[-1]}"
          puts msg.content.body
        rescue
          sleep(0.5)
        end
    end
end

def producer(client, ch, filenames)
    rkey = "disttailf." + Socket.gethostname.split('.')[-1]
    tail_f(filenames) do |filename, line|
        h = {'sent' => Time.now.to_i, 'filename' => filename }
        c = Qpid::Content.new({:headers=>h}, line)
        ch.basic_publish(:routing_key=>rkey, :content=>c,
                            :exchange=>'amq.topic')
        puts "#{filename}: #{line}"
    end
end

def tail_f(filenames, &block)
    filedict = Hash.new
    filenames.each { |f| filedict[f] = open_or_nil(f) }
    reopen_counter = 0
    while true:
        if reopen_counter > 120
            reopen_counter = 0
            filenames.reject { |f| filedict[f] }.each {
                |f| filedict[f] = open_or_nil(f) }
        end

        filedict.values.reject { |f| not f }.each do |f|
            begin
                raise "trunc" unless File.stat(f.path).size >= f.tell
            rescue
                $stderr << "#{f.path}: removed or truncated\n"
                f.close
                filedict[f.path] = nil
                next
            end

            begin
              block.call(f.path,f.readline) while true
            rescue EOFError
              true
            end
        end

        reopen_counter += 1
        sleep(0.5)
   end # while true
end

def open_or_nil(filename)
    begin
        File.open(filename)
    rescue
        nil
    end
end

if __FILE__ == $0
    require 'getoptlong'

    server = '127.0.0.1'
    port = 5672
    specxml = '/etc/amqp0-8.xml'
    acts_as_consumer = false

    opts = GetoptLong.new(
        ['--server', '-s', GetoptLong::REQUIRED_ARGUMENT],
        ['--port', '-p', GetoptLong::REQUIRED_ARGUMENT],
        ['--specxml', '-x', GetoptLong::REQUIRED_ARGUMENT],
        ['--consume', '-c', GetoptLong::NO_ARGUMENT])
    opts.each do |opt,arg|
      case opt
        when '--server'
            server = arg
        when '--port'
            port = arg.to_i
        when '--specxml'
            specxml = arg
        when '--consume'
            acts_as_consumer = true
      end
    end

    # set up connection to rabbitmq broker
    client = Qpid::Client.new(server, port, spec=Spec.load(specxml))
    client.start({ "LOGIN" => "guest", "PASSWORD" => "guest" })
    ch = client.channel(1)
    ch.channel_open()

    if acts_as_consumer
        consumer(client, ch)
    else
        if ARGV.length == 0
            puts __doc__
            raise "List of file names is empty - nothing to do"
        end
        producer(client, ch, ARGV)
    end

end