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    <h1>Ruby amqp gem</h1>
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    An EventMachine-based Ruby RabbitMQ client.
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    <h3>RabbitMQ Ruby Client O.G.</h3>
    <p>The original Ruby RabbitMQ client. Party like it's 2009!</p>
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    <h3>EventMachine-based</h3>
    <p>All your events are belong to us.</p>
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    <h3>Totally superseded by Bunny</h3>
    <p>If you aren't already heavily invested in Eventmachine, please
      use <a href="http://rubybunny.info"></a> Bunny instead.</p>
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    <h3>Feature complete</h3>
    <p>Supports all RabbitMQ 3.x features.</p>
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    <h3>Handles flaky networks</h3>
    <p>First RabbitMQ client ever to support automatic connection recovery.</p>
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    <h3>Quirky</h3>
    <p>EventMachine is a quirky and opinionated programming model.
    So is amqp gem.</p>
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