# Ruby and IBM MQ Series

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-ibm-mq-series/51770>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 6, 2006, 10:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-ibm-mq-series/51770 "2006-01-06T22:02:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Juan\_pablo\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@Juan\_pablo\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Juan_pablo_N)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 10:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-ibm-mq-series/51770/1 "2006-01-06T22:02:23Z")

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Hi folks!

I’m thinking about doing web development on RoR for my shop, but most of  
our clients use the IBM middleware MQSeries.

I can’t find a library to use MQSeries from Ruby. Does such a thing even  
exists? Or should I build it myself?

Ideas?

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**Author:** ![Juan\_pablo\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@Juan\_pablo\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Juan_pablo_N)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 12:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-ibm-mq-series/51770/2 "2006-01-07T00:19:24Z")

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You could probably do bindings to the XMS C api for MQSeries without  
a lot of pain.

-Brian

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**Author:** ![Juan\_pablo\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@Juan\_pablo\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Juan_pablo_N)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 2:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-ibm-mq-series/51770/3 "2006-01-07T02:27:17Z")

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Brian McCallister wrote:

> You could probably do bindings to the XMS C api for MQSeries without  
> a lot of pain.
> 
> -Brian

That doesn’t sound too impresive. I will give it a try.

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**Author:** ![Juan\_pablo\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@Juan\_pablo\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Juan_pablo_N)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 9:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-ibm-mq-series/51770/4 "2006-11-07T21:08:04Z")

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Hi Juan,

Don’t know if you can still use it, but there is now a complete  
implementation of the WebSphere MQ (MQSeries) API available for Ruby.

I have used it extensively in Production migrations and we are also  
using it to build a WebSphere MQ monitoring application in Ruby on  
Rails.

[http://rubywmq.rubyforge.org/](http://rubywmq.rubyforge.org/)

The download contains several useful samples.

Regards  
Reid Morrison