I have been working on a local fork of the fauna/cassandra rubygem to add support for 0.8. I am a relative newcomer to Cassandra in general, and working on the internals of the client has really helped.
To make sure that I didn't loose any ground with other versions of Cassandra, I updated the test suite so that it can run tests against 0.6, 0.7, and 0.8. This works by setting a CASSANDRA_VERSION env variable before calling the normal rake or bin/cassandra_helper scripts. Run the cassandra version with: CASSANDRA_VERSION=0.8 rake cassandra Then you can run the tests with: CASSANDRA_VERSION=0.8 rake I still have a ways to go with getting all the tests passing, but at this point 0.8 and 0.6 have around 6 failures and 8 errors. (I am struggling with an schema loading issue with 0.7.4.) I hope to have the tests all passing in the next couple of days, and hopefully we can get the changes pushed upstream. Then I am going to start fleshing out the CQL version (which hopefully shouldn't be such a moving target between Cassandra versions). I would certainly appreciate any feedback on my work so far. https://github.com/rjackson/cassandra/tree/cassandra_0.8 Robert Jackson
