Cassandra Client 0.4

This is only an alpha release and does not yet support the full Thrift API or all the CassandraDB releases.

Here are some key features of "Cassandra Client":

· Clean encapsulation of the Thrift API
· Pluggable serialization and compression
· Ruby 1.9 compatibility

Requirements:

· Ruby 1.8 / 1.9 or higher
· Thrift

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Use new comparator API.
· Namespace Thrift bindings;
· Rename gem and class to Cassandra.
· Make tokens and limits actually work.
· Retry UnavailableExceptions.