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 mechanism. (Couch, Mongo, Cassandra, etc.) Accessing REST services with Ruby is so clean (using rest-client gem) that you can get to most data elements in just a couple lines. It also enabled simple browser-side/javascript fetches of data (so we didn't have to take a round-trips through MVC for simple data retrieval). REST is the new JDBC. ;) -brian On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 6:13 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 any reference implementation? **** > > some projects on github that are using the gems?**** > > ** ** > > Regards,**** > > Wolfgang**** > -- Brian ONeill Lead Architect, Health Market Science (http://healthmarketscience.com) mobile:215.588.6024 blog: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/boneill42/ blog: http://brianoneill.blogspot.com/
