TL;DR
amqp gem 1.2.1 is released to rubygems.org.
This release is 100% backwards compatible.
Changes Between 1.2.0 and 1.2.1
Initial Connection Failures Retries
Set connection status to closed on connection failure, which means connection retries succeed.
Contributed by Marius Hanne.
About the Author
Michael on behalf of the Ruby RabbitMQ Clients Team