IronMQ on Heroku Now Open to the Public

By Iron | January 16, 2012 |

IronMQ is now in General Availability on Heroku so everyone can add it to their Heroku apps. It’s really easy to get started, here’s how:

heroku addons:add iron_mq

Then in your app configuration:

@iron_mq = IronMQ::Client.new(:token => ENV[‘IRON_MQ_TOKEN’], ‘project_id’ => ENV[‘IRON_MQ_PROJECT_ID’])

Then we can use it:

@iron_mq.messages.post(“Hello World!”)

And somewhere else:

@iron_mq.messages.get()
# do something with it. When you’re done, be sure to delete the message
@iron_mq.messages.delete()

That should get you started. A fast, reliable and scalable queue, ready to for you to use in under five minutes!

You can find an example of a Sinatra app that you can clone and push to Heroku here: https://github.com/iron-io/heroku_sinatra_example