Go with the twitter client that is more mature / under active development. If you are just starting out / experimenting Thrift is fine to use, it's not going away. As you get more experience you may start to prefer CQL and by that time their may be a ruby/C driver.
Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Consultant New Zealand @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 27/05/2013, at 12:05 PM, Matthew Hillsborough <matthew.hillsboro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am interested in using Cassandra in a Ruby on Rails project. > > After a quick search on GitHub, there seems to be two clients that > stick out for use with Ruby: > > * https://github.com/twitter/cassandra > * https://github.com/kreynolds/cassandra-cql > > The documentation I've read suggested that users of 1.2.5 should use > CQL vs Thrift in their client. That would point all signs to trying > the cassandra-cql client first since the Twitter client is Thrift > based. > > My concern is that it seems the Twitter client has a larger community > and has more recent commits made to it. > > I'm not entirely sure where the best place to start is; but if anyone > here works extensively with Ruby and/or Rails and can suggest a client > that DataStax and/or the community suggests to use, that would be > great. > > Thank you for any and all recommendations. > > Matthew.
