Re: Using Cassandra in Rails App

2011-12-16 Thread Jeremy Hanna
Traditionally there are two places to go. Twitter's ruby client at https://github.com/twitter/cassandra or the newer cql driver at http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/cassandra-ruby/. The latter might be nice for green field applications but CQL is still gaining features. Some

Re: Using Cassandra in Rails App

2011-12-16 Thread Aaron Turner
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 3:13 AM, Wolfgang Vogl aon.912508...@aon.at wrote: Hi, I have a couple of questions about working with Ruby on Rails and Cassandra. What is the recommended way of Cassandra integration into a Rails app ? active_column cassandra-cql some other gems? Is there

Using Cassandra in Rails App

2011-12-15 Thread Wolfgang Vogl
Hi, I have a couple of questions about working with Ruby on Rails and Cassandra. What is the recommended way of Cassandra integration into a Rails app ? active_column cassandra-cql some other gems? Is there any reference implementation? some projects on github that are using the

Re: Using Cassandra in Rails App

2011-12-15 Thread Brian O'Neill
I'm not sure this is the best answer, but all of our webapps (RoR included) access Cassandra via REST. That is one of the major reasons we built Virgil. http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/virgil/ It allows us to build the webapps, for the most part, independent of the actual storage