Redirecting Dead Letters in Amazon SQS - Amazon SDK for Ruby
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Redirecting Dead Letters in Amazon SQS

The following example redirects any dead letters from the queue with the URL URL to the queue with the ARN ARN.

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require 'aws-sdk-sqs'  # v2: require 'aws-sdk'

sqs = Aws::SQS::Client.new(region: 'us-west-2')

sqs.set_queue_attributes({
  queue_url: URL,
  attributes:
    {
      'RedrivePolicy' => "{\"maxReceiveCount\":\"5\", \"deadLetterTargetArn\":\"#{ARN}\"}"
    }
})