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 people also use hector via jruby afaik. Brian O'Neill also has the rest based server that he mentioned in this thread.
A recent presentation that talks about ruby with cassandra is here: http://www.slideshare.net/tylerhobbs/cassandra-for-rubyrails-devs On Dec 15, 2011, at 5:13 AM, Wolfgang Vogl 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