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ActiveRecord and Thrift Part Deux

I posted about AR and thrift earlier (or late last year) and was reminded this morning that I didn’t follow up that post with the solution. So here it is: Download spike code.

Now it has been a while since i solved this, and the versions may have changed since then, but I do remember that the “tricksy” part was boot-strapping ActiveRecord. That was done using the supplied boot.rb. Once that’s done, you can happily run the thrift server daemon based on textbook instructions and the rest is history. Your models and all the ActiveRecord learnings you’ve had with rails can be re-used quite happily.

Happy coding.

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ActiveRecord Meets Thrift

I stumbled across the Thrift framework not so long ago and have been intrigued ever since because of it’s promises. And it’s easy to fall in love with the marketing and promises of any framework when it tickles and uses the words and phrases you like to hear, not so?

So finally, I have the opportunity to test drive it: in a design that will become a product that will be released into production in the not so far future. So I want to make sure it’s ticking along as I would expect it to, especially if I want to test, implement, debug, deploy, maintain, scale and extend. And so far, i’m tres impressed.

On the server, I have the default Thrift server, Ruby flavoured, running on Mac OS X with a CSharp client on a Windows XP box (same LAN) and all with no extra tinkering; just as is, courtesy of the generator. Luverly stuff! And then, the implemented handler on the server uses ActiveRecord to handle the database lifting. No Rails: just Thrift and ActiveRecord. And it rocks (so far).

I’ll more than likely be documenting this implementation in more detail over time since the combination opens up many more opportunities in the space i love to work play in. And that’s including the spike project source code.

References and gratitude to the following authors/posts which assisted in getting this going: