thrift_client A Thrift client wrapper that encapsulates some common failover behavior. == License Copyright 2009 Twitter, Inc. See included LICENSE file. The public certificate for this gem is here[http://blog.evanweaver.com/files/evan_weaver-original-public_cert.pem]. == Features * Transparent connection management * Configurable failover and retry backoff * Ruby 1.9 compatibility * ThriftClient::Simple class, for working without generated bindings. The Github source repository is {here}[http://github.com/fauna/thrift_client/]. Patches and contributions are very welcome. == Usage Instantiate a client: client = ThriftClient.new(CassandraRb::Client, '127.0.0.1:9160', :retries => 2) You can then make calls to the server via the <tt>client</tt> instance as if was your internal Thrift client. The connection will be opened lazily and methods will be proxied through. client.get_string_list_property("keyspaces") On failures, the client will try the remaining servers in the list before giving up. See ThriftClient for more. == Installation You need Ruby 1.8 or 1.9. If you have those, just run: sudo gem install thrift_client == Contributing To contribute changes: 1. Fork the project 2. make your change, adding tests 3. send a pull request to fauna and ryanking == Reporting problems The Github issue tracker is {here}[http://github.com/fauna/thrift_client/issues].