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LICENSE

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+Copyright (c) 2011 Jim Myhrberg & Global Personals, Ltd.
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
+included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
+MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
+LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
+OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
+WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

README.md

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+# amqp-failover #
+
+Add multi-server support with failover and fallback to the [amqp](https://github.com/ruby-amqp/amqp) gem.
+
+
+## Basic Usage ##
+
+    require 'mq'
+    require 'amqp/failover'
+    opts = [{:port => 5672}, {:port => 5673}]
+    AMQP.start(opts) do
+      # code...
+    end
+
+By default the client will connect to `localhost:5672`, but if for any reason it can't connect, or looses connection to that server, it'll attempt to connect to `localhost:5673` instead.
+
+
+## Options Formats ##
+
+### Standard Non-Failover ###
+
+Hash:
+
+    opts = {:host => "hostname", :port => 5673}
+
+URL:
+
+    opts = "amqp://user:pass@hostname:5673/"
+
+### With Failover ###
+
+URLs
+
+    opts = "amqp://localhost:5672/,amqp://localhost:5673/"
+
+Array of Hashes:
+
+    opts = [{:port => 5672}, {:port => 5673}]
+
+Array of URLs:
+
+    opts = ["amqp://localhost:5672/", "amqp://localhost:5673/"]
+
+Specify AMQP servers and Failover options by passing a Hash containing a `:hosts` key with a value of either of the above three examples:
+
+    opts = {:hosts => "amqp://localhost:5672/,amqp://localhost:5673/", :fallback => true}
+    opts = {:hosts => [{:port => 5672}, {:port => 5673}], :fallback => true}
+    opts = {:hosts => ["amqp://localhost:5672/", "amqp://localhost:5673/"], :fallback => true}
+
+## Failover Options ##
+
+* `:retry_timeout`, time to wait before retrying a specific AMQP config after failure.
+* `:fallback`, check for the return of the primary server, and fallback to it if and when it returns. WARNING: This currently calls `Process.exit` cause I haven't figured out a way to artificially kill the EM connection without the AMQP channels also being closed, which causes nothing to work even after EM connects to the primary server. It works for me cause dead workers are automatically relaunched with their default config.
+* `:fallback_interval`, seconds between each check for original server if :fallback is true.
+* `:selection`, not yet implemented.
+
+
+## Todo ##
+
+* Figure out a sane way to fallback without having to kill the Ruby process.
+* Better Readme/Documentation.
+* Convince get failover functionality merged in, or otherwise rewritten/added to the official AMQP gem.
+
+
+## Note on Patches/Pull Requests ##
+ 
+* Fork the project.
+* Make your feature addition or bug fix.
+* Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a
+  future version unintentionally.
+* Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history.
+  (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
+* Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.
+
+
+## Liccense and Copyright ##
+
+Copyright (c) 2011 Jim Myhrberg & Global Personals, Ltd.
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
+included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
+MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
+LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
+OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
+WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.