What is Bunnyq?

Bunnyq aims to be a RabbitMQ administration and testing/development swiss army knife. It allows you to do a large (and growing) number of tasks that are supported by RabbitMQ's RESTful HTTP Management API. To get a list of current tasks that are supported, run '?' from within the shell. Here's the output at time of writing (Feb. 2012):

guest@localhost: ?

Documented commands (type help <topic>):
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create_binding   delete_exchange  get_status           list_vhosts   xlist
create_exchange  delete_queue     list_queue_bindings  purge_queue
create_queue     dump_message     list_users           send_message

Undocumented commands:
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EOF  connect  exit  help  qlist

Features

• It's easy to use and works on any RabbitMQ server running the HTTP Management API.
• Provides an interactive shell to issue commands to the server.
• Optional 'one-shot' mode: you don't have to launch a full-blown shell if you just want to send one command to a host.
• Optional config file makes it easy to deal with managing a lot of servers without getting carpal tunnel syndrome.
• Really easy to extend to add new commands.
• If readline is available, command history and completion should work. On my test machine (a mac running Lion), history and completion both work.

Requirements

• argparse (unless you're using Python >=2.7. Get a backported argparse for Python <=2.6 at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/argparse)
• pyrabbit (I wrote this too: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyrabbit)
• PyYaml (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyYAML)

Installation

$ sudo pip install bunnyq

Installation puts a command called 'bunnyq' in your path, so running 'bunnyq' at a command line should get you where you want to go. For help run 'bunnyq --help', and for help with commands within the bunnyq shell, type '?' in the bunnyq shell.