Bigrecord Example

example app using Apache Cassandra with Bigrecord and Bigindex

Requirements

• ruby 1.8.7 >= 0
• rubygems 1.3.7
• rails 2.3.5

Dependencies

• bundler
• Apache Cassandra

Configuration

• copy bigrecord.yml.example to bigrecord.yml
• copy bigindex.yml.example to bigindex.yml
• bundle install

Running

• run Cassandra by apache-cassandra-dir/bin/cassandra -f
• to use Bigindex run rake bigindex:solr:start
• bundle exec script/server

Indexes

• if you add new/modify indexes run rake bigindex:rebuild_index

Examples

• blog is simple and finds only by id but there are specified indexes for post's title and username
• if you want to search by title type: Post.find(:first, :conditions => { :title => 'some_title' })