q-ruby-driver
by Philip Dodds and John Shields http://www.github.com/pdodds/q-ruby-driver
DESCRIPTION:
A ruby interface to a Q server from http://www.kx.com, see http://code.kx.com for more information.
FEATURES:
- Provides a pure Ruby implementation of the IPC protocol
- Supports single-pass read/write for all main Q-types (19 atom types, 19 vector types, lists, dicts, flips, exceptions)
- Converts Q types to/from native Ruby types, including Array, Hash, Bignum, Float, Symbol, and TrueClass/FalseClass. Date/Time types are not yet natively supported.
EXAMPLE USAGE:
q_connection = QConnection.new 'localhost', 5001
# Note we'll use the sync call (get)
q_connection.get("a:`IBM`GOOG`APPL")
response = q_connection.get("a")
# Get the body of the response
puts response.inspect
REQUIREMENTS:
Ruby 1.8+
INSTALL:
sudo gem install q-ruby-driver
LICENSE:
(The MIT License)
Copyright (c) 2009 Philip Dodds
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.