After having been through some major Java and MQ Series root canal surgery in the last few days, I’m thinking that while MQ (an IBM product) really is ridiculously evil the queue type system is fairly useful in itself.

Then in a mid meeting psychosis day dream state I realized that it wouldn’t be particularly hard to at least rustle up a quick rest based Queue framework in Ruby. I’m thinking Camping on Mongrel would be particularly suitable for this. Think REST and ActiveResource as the API.

Should not take too long to develop. The big question is if there really is a need for a Queueing based system for Rubyistas?