# ruby-amqp/bunny

Bunny is a popular, easy to use, mature Ruby client for RabbitMQ

Repository: https://github.com/ruby-amqp/bunny
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ruby-amqp-bunny
Language: Ruby
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: rabbitmq, ruby, amqp, amqp0-9-1, messaging
Last push: 2026-08-20T04:07:42+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 83/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 53, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5663, "days_push": 13, "days_rel": 154, "gap_med": 172.5, "n_releases_24m": 3}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1425, forks 315 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:41.476697+00:00)

## What it is
Bunny is a mature, feature-complete Ruby client library for RabbitMQ implementing the AMQP 0-9-1 protocol. It lets Ruby applications publish and consume messages with no heavyweight dependencies.

## Use cases
- publish and consume messages from RabbitMQ in Ruby
- build work queues between Ruby services
- route events from a web app to other backend services
- aggregate events and metrics from multiple applications
- distribute real-time updates to web applications
- fan out price or market data updates to subscribers
- delegate indexing or processing jobs to worker applications

## When to choose
- your Ruby or TruffleRuby app needs to talk to RabbitMQ over AMQP 0-9-1
- you want a mature, well-maintained client with a friendly API
- you need support for recent RabbitMQ features and TLS 1.3

## When to avoid
- you are on JRuby (use March Hare instead)
- you need AMQP 1.0 or a different broker like Kafka
- you want a language-agnostic client outside the Ruby ecosystem

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: message-queue, http-client
- domain: backend, microservices
- platform: ruby, cross-platform
- tags: rabbitmq, amqp-0-9-1, message-broker-client, work-queues, pub-sub, messaging

## Member repositories
- ruby-amqp/bunny (main) score 83

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:41.476697+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:37:32.139722+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ruby-amqp/bunny (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:41.476697+00:00, sha 36b2fe6a3195)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.