The rubygem writes corrupted avro files under ruby 2.0.0 and ruby 2.1.1. It appears to work correctly under jruby-1.7.10 and ruby 1.9.3.
Here is a reproducible:
```ruby
require 'avro'
data = [
{"guid"=>"144045de-eb44-dd1b-d9af-6c8b5d41a96e", "user_guid"=>"0cd41235-5c14-eae9-00ed-c6eb11dd9119", "name"=>"My Awesome Bank", "created_at"=>1390617818, "updated_at"=>1398180288, "deleted_at"=>nil}
,
{"guid"=>"51e06057-14d2-7527-81fa-b07dba0a263b", "user_guid"=>"0cd41235-5c14-eae9-00ed-c6eb11dd9119", "name"=>"Student Loans R' Us", "created_at"=>1386178342, "updated_at"=>1398180286, "deleted_at"=>nil}
,
{"guid"=>"b4d1d99f-4351-d0e7-221c-a3fae08716bc", "user_guid"=>"0cd41235-5c14-eae9-00ed-c6eb11dd9119", "name"=>"My Awesome Bank", "created_at"=>1390617026, "updated_at"=>1398180288, "deleted_at"=>nil}
,
{"guid"=>"084638fa-a78d-bbdd-e075-7c9c957a9b46", "user_guid"=>"0cd41235-5c14-eae9-00ed-c6eb11dd9119", "name"=>"My Awesome Bank", "created_at"=>1390617138, "updated_at"=>1398180288, "deleted_at"=>nil}
,
{"guid"=>"79287c76-4e8f-0a21-7569-a2bcdc2b2f4d", "user_guid"=>"0cd41235-5c14-eae9-00ed-c6eb11dd9119", "name"=>"My Awesome Bank", "created_at"=>1390617135, "updated_at"=>1398180288, "deleted_at"=>nil}
,
{"guid"=>"3bcc26b2-7d3b-6c4d-cb27-4eb1574b3c20", "user_guid"=>"0cd41235-5c14-eae9-00ed-c6eb11dd9119", "name"=>"Cayman Islands Bank", "created_at"=>1386902345, "updated_at"=>1398180288, "deleted_at"=>nil}
,
{"guid"=>"75e1e56c-7611-4030-d002-afa2af70e5a1", "user_guid"=>"0cd41235-5c14-eae9-00ed-c6eb11dd9119", "name"=>"My Awesome Bank", "created_at"=>1390617427, "updated_at"=>1398180288, "deleted_at"=>nil}
,
]
member_schema = <<-SCHEMA
{"namespace": "md.data_logs",
"type": "record",
"name": "Member",
"fields": [
{"name": "guid", "type": "string"}
,
{"name": "user_guid", "type": "string"}
,
{"name": "name", "type": ["string","null"]}
,
{"name": "created_at", "type":"long"}
,
{"name": "updated_at", "type":"long"}
,
{"name": "deleted_at", "type":["long","null"]}
]
}
SCHEMA
filepath = "./members.avro"
File.unlink(filepath) if File.exists?(filepath)
Avro::DataFile.open(filepath, "w", member_schema) do |dw|
data.each do |entry|
dw << entry
end
end
entries = []
Avro::DataFile.open(filepath, "r") do |reader|
reader.each do |entry|
entries << entry
end
end
puts "Here is the data I wrote into the file:"
data.each
{|e| p e }
print "\n\n\n\n"
puts "Here is the data I read from the file:"
entries.each{|e| p e }
```
Under ruby 2+ it fails with the message "undefined method 'unpack' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)". I have also tested that the rubygem can correctly read avro files written by the java client, but the java client fails to read files written by the ruby client, so the issue is definitely in how the rubygem is trying to write the binary file.
Major