To gain insight into the state of destinations on the ActiveMQ broker via STOMP you can make use of the StatisticsBrokerPlugin feature to query for stats on destinations. ActiveMQ can also send out information via Advisory Messages which you can subscribe to with you STOMP client. As far as the Ruby syntax, no idea, but I'd hope the project has some examples you can build on.
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