how to get the number of messages in a queue?

[joel]

Hey folks,

I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the number of
messages in a queue. I've looked at the rdoc and the code and have
come up empty.

From the 0.6.0 release announcement:
" - queue status api to get # of consumers and messages in the
queue "

-Joel

[Aman Gupta]

MQ.queue('name').status{ |num_messages, num_consumers|
puts num_messages
}

Aman

[Joel Wood]

Thank you.

-Joel