pierry, you might want to check out our fork of the kafka-rb client: http://github.com/wooga/kafka-rb
we fixed some bugs, and are using it successfully in production now. ah, wait, it is for 0.6 ... but maybe you can have a look at our changes anyway. tim Sent from my iPhone On 10.02.2012, at 17:53, Pierre-Yves Ritschard <p...@spootnik.org> wrote: > I forgot to mention we are running 0.7 > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Pierre-Yves Ritschard <p...@spootnik.org> > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> We're having trouble wiring messages to our brokers from non jvm >> clients. Using the kafka-rb gem on our standard brokers, messages >> don't seem to get through. >> >> We're using the same brokers for zookeeper enabled clients than for >> the plain kafka-rb ones, access is load-balanced (by haproxy) in the >> case of the kafka-rb ones. >> >> Thanks for your insight, >> - pyr