mogilefs-client

Rubyforge Project:

rubyforge.org/projects/rctools/

Documentation:

dev.robotcoop.com/Libraries/mogilefs/

About

This is a client for Danga‘s MogileFS distributed file system. For information on MogileFS see:

danga.com/mogilefs/

Installing mogilefs-client

First you need a MogileFS setup. You can find information on how to do that at the above URL.

Then install the gem:

  $ sudo gem install mogilefs-client

Using mogilefs-client

  # Create a new instance that will communicate with these trackers:
  hosts = %w[192.168.1.69:6001 192.168.1.70:6001]
  mg = MogileFS::MogileFS.new(:domain => 'test', :hosts => hosts
                              :root => '/mnt/mogilefs')

  # Stores "A bunch of text to store" into 'some_key' with a class of 'text'.
  mg.store_content 'some_key', 'text', "A bunch of text to store"

  # Retrieve data from 'some_key'
  data = mg.get_file_data 'some_key'

  # Store the contents of 'image.jpeg' into the key 'my_image' with a class of
  # 'image'.
  mg.store_file 'my_image', 'image', 'image.jpeg'

  # Store the contents of 'image.jpeg' into the key 'my_image' with a class of
  # 'image' using an open IO.
  File.open 'image.jpeg' do |fp|
    mg.store_file 'my_image', 'image', fp
  end

  # Remove the key 'my_image' and 'some_key'.
  mg.delete 'my_image'
  mg.delete 'some_key'

WARNING!

This client is only known to work in NFS mode. HTTP mode is implemented but completely untested. If you find a bug, please report it on the Rubyforge project:

rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=add&group_id=1266&atid=4981