One thing I would really like to see is low-level connection failover
within the Stomp gem itself.  In my current hacked-up copy of
stomp.rb, I'm accomplishing this by storing an array of connection
objects instead of host/port variables.  I then increment an index
into that array every time I try a reconnect within socket().

Basically, my socket() has an @hosts array and @host_index, and does
something like this:

  @host_index = (@host_index+1)%...@hosts.size
  host = @hosts[@host_index]
  begin
    s = TCPSocket.open host[:host], host[:port]
    _transmit(s, "CONNECT", {:login => host[:login], :passcode =>
host[:passcode]})
    ...

And I then open a "reliable with failover" connection using a method I
added:

Stomp::Connection.open_failover( [{:host => "host1"}, {:host =>
"host2", :port => 61007}] )

Ideally, if support for Stomp "URLs" was added to the gem, you could
pass something in similar to JMS's failover spec:

Stomp::Connection.open("failover:stomp://user:password@host1;stomp://
user:password@host2:61007")

If there's a better list for this discussion please let me know, I'm
very interested in seeing a robust Stomp failover just like JMS but I
haven't seen a good discussion group for the stomp gem itself.

Elliot