Question

could someone help with an example how to change visibility timeout for an sqs message using ruby aws-sdk ?

here is the code that I’ve used for my tests using the method batch_change_message_visibility, but I get the error “undefined method ‘batch_change_message_visibility'”

require 'rubygems'
require 'aws-sdk'

sqs = AWS::SQS.new(
    :access_key_id => access_key,
    :secret_access_key => access_secret)

queue = sqs.queues.named(queue_name)

messages = []
messages << { :message => message_handle, :visibility_timeout => 5 }
queue.batch_change_message_visibility(messages)

Any Idea? Any help would the very welcome 🙂
Thanks

Answer 1

You have to use the splat operator when passing the messages array parameter to the batch_change_message_visibility method.

As shown in the docs here, you should write (note the * before the messages parameter):

messages = []
messages << { :message => 'handle1', :visibility_timeout => 5 }
messages << { :message => 'handle2', :visibility_timeout => 10 }

queue.batch_change_visibility(*messages)