TL;DR
amqp gem 1.0.1 is released to rubygems.org.
This release has bug fixes by upgrading amq-protocol dependency to 1.3.0+.
Changes between amqp gem 1.0.0 and 1.0.1
amq-protocol Bug Fixes
amq-protocolnow correctly serializes floats (both 32 and 64 bits) in attribute tables.- Byte values (8 bit signed integers) deserialization is now supported.
Michael on behalf of the Ruby RabbitMQ Clients Team