Nevermind, looks like this has already been done using the Thrift APIs! https://github.com/forward/rbhive
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Ryan LeCompte <lecom...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey guys, > > I'm thinking about writing a native Ruby client that can be used to connect > to a running Hive server and issue queries and get back results. I know that > there's a native JDBC API. Could anyone please point me to any docs or > source code that would cover the connection/protocol details? Would this be > fairly painless (the communication part)? > > Thanks, > Ryan > >