diff --git a/sylvilagus/scala/src/main/scala/com/meatballhat/sylvilagus/ch02/Producer.scala b/sylvilagus/scala/src/main/scala/com/meatballhat/sylvilagus/ch02/Producer.scala
index ab13e5d..d91adcf 100644
--- a/sylvilagus/scala/src/main/scala/com/meatballhat/sylvilagus/ch02/Producer.scala
+++ b/sylvilagus/scala/src/main/scala/com/meatballhat/sylvilagus/ch02/Producer.scala
@@ -1,5 +1,21 @@
-object Producer extends App {
-    println("OH HAI")
-}
+import com.rabbitmq.client._
 
-// vim: set ts=2 sw=2 et:
+object Producer extends App {
+    if (args.length < 1) {
+        println("You must provide a message argument")
+    } else {
+        var messageBody = args(0)
+
+            var factory = new ConnectionFactory()
+            factory.setUri("amqp://guest:guest@localhost:5672")
+        var connection = factory.newConnection()
+            var channel = connection.createChannel()
+
+            channel.exchangeDeclare("hello-exchange", "direct", true)
+        channel.queueDeclare("hello-queue", true, false, false, null)
+
+        println("Publishing ", messageBody)
+        channel.basicPublish("hello-exchange", "hola", null,
+            messageBody.toCharArray().map(_.toByte))
+    }
+}