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Rocketman is a gem that introduces Pub-Sub mechanism within your Ruby code.

The main goal of Rocketman is not to replace proper message buses like Redis PubSub/Kafka, but rather be a stepping stone. You can read more about the rationale behind the project down below.

As with all Pub-Sub mechanism, this greatly decouples your upstream producer and downstream consumer, allowing for scalability, and easier refactor when you decide to move Pub-Sub to a separate service.

Rocketman also works without Rails.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'rocketman'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install rocketman

Rocketman exposes two module, Rocketman::Producer and Rocketman::Consumer. They do exactly as what their…