# MOM - Message Oriented Middleware for Rails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mom-message-oriented-middleware-for-rails/176422>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 30, 2009, 10:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mom-message-oriented-middleware-for-rails/176422 "2009-09-30T10:42:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![rtacconi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@rtacconi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rtacconi)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 10:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mom-message-oriented-middleware-for-rails/176422/1 "2009-09-30T10:42:37Z")

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I would like to develop a monitoring system with Ruby and Rails. I  
will have the agents in the server and the monitoring system, with a  
poller that will notify the Rails application.

I have tested ActiveMQ, with JRuby and Ruby and works fine. I will  
test the ActiveMessage plugin for an Rails easy integration. I  
wondering what are the more popular and reliable choices on Rails for  
MOM. I saw that someone uses XMPP, some AMPQ implementation  
(RabbitMQ). Any advice?

P.S.: I need to send text messages but I need to send serialized  
objects too (data objects containing CPU, disk… info).

Thanks,

Riccardo.