Hi Lee,

On 17 Jul 2014, at 15:03, Lee Hambley <[email protected]> wrote:
> First of all, there are some problems with the trunk of the Ruby gem,

A few issues have been fixed in the Avro 1.7.7 release candidate, which will 
hopefully be out soon: 
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/avro-dev/201407.mbox/%3CCALEq1Z_Ew2UCt4PPHnY0L-drxyaVbyn0h%2BH%2BLZOLGqZpmz2hHA%40mail.gmail.com%3E

> I would gladly contribute, but I suppose (perhaps someone could confirm) that 
> the correct place is the dev mailing list, where I can send unified diffs

The best place is the issue tracker: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO 
but the dev list is good for staying on top of what's happening.

> it's only about a typo (fixed) in a Gem dependency name

That sounds like https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1459 which is fixed 
in 1.7.7.

> and incorrect syntax for the error constants.

Not sure what you mean with this. Can you file an issue if there isn't already 
one?

> Finally to my problem, I believe the problem is that contrary to the 
> canonical Ruby client example. I'm not abolutely clear on the distinction 
> between a schema and  a protocol (I'd imagine the former is related purely to 
> serialization, and the protocol is for the RPC functionality)

That distinction is correct.

> I wonder if someone might be able to shed some light on why (almost 
> regardless of what I try) I can't seem to escape messages in this irk:

I've not used Flume so I don't know, but perhaps this old mailing list message 
is relevant?
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/avro-user/201306.mbox/%3CCAA5kp3q62W_0Ynx8bToPC=tzo+umvtzrqputsjwekceqvat...@mail.gmail.com%3E

Martin

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