zkruby¶ ↑

• rubygems.org/gems/zkruby

Pure ruby client for ZooKeeper (zookeeper.apache.org)

Supports full ZooKeeper API, synchronous or asynchronous style, watches etc.. with implementations over EventMachine or plain old Ruby IO/Threads

Other ruby libraries for zookeeper tend to use the underlying C/Java client libraries while zkruby implements the zookeeper wire protocol directly.

Advantages:

• Rubyist API - with block is asynchronous, without block is synchronous

• Avoids conflicts between various Ruby threading models and the C/Java apis

• Same code for JRuby or MRI

• Connection bindings for pure ruby IO and eventmachine, or roll your own

Disadvantages:

• Duplicated code from Java/C libraries, particularly around herd effect protection

• Needs to keep up with changes in wire protocol which are possibly more likely than changes in the client API

• Possibly not as optimised in terms of performance (but your client code is ruby anyway)

• Not production tested (yet- do you want to be the first?)

1. Configure Slf4R Logging (rubygems.org/gems/slf4r)

2. Get a connection {ZooKeeper.connect}

3. Make requests on the returned {ZooKeeper::Client}

require 'slf4r/ruby_logging' 
require 'zkruby'

# Using ruby threads and sockets (default)
zk = ZooKeeper.connect("localhost:2181")
# Synchronous
stat = zk.exists("/aPath")

# Asynchronous
zk.exists("/aPath) { |stat| puts stat.inspect }

# Watches
watch = lambda { |state,path,event| puts "Watch fired #{state} #{path} #{event}" }

stat,data = zk.get("/aPath",watch)

# OR with EventMachine
require 'em_zkruby'
EventMachine.run do
   # Magic of Fibers (via Empathy) lets us code normally and execute asynchronously
   Empathy::EM::Thread.new() do
      begin
          zk = ZooKeeper.connect("localhost:2181")
          #Sync
          path = zk.create("/aPath/mynode",ZK::ACL_ANYONE_UNSAFE,:ephemeral,:sequential) 

          #Async
          zk.get(path) do |stat,data|
             puts "#{stat.inspect} #{data}" 
          end

      rescue ZooKeeper::Error => zkex
          puts zkex.message
      end
   end
end

• A ZooKeeper cluster to connect to

• Ruby 1.9 (but a backport should be straightforward)

$ (sudo) gem install zkruby

Download ZooKeeper from zookeeper.apache.org

Create a conf/zoo.cfg file (copying sample.zoo.cfg is fine)

Checkout the zkruby source into the contrib directory

Copy (if different) src/zookeeper.jute to contrib/zkruby/src/zookeeper.jute

Get gem dependencies

$ bundle install

Generate docs and run the tests/specs

$ rake

(The MIT License)

Copyright © 2012 Grant Gardner

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