[ZOOKEEPER-661] Add Ruby bindings

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: contrib-bindings

Environment

MRI Ruby 1.9
JRuby 1.4

• Release Note: Add Ruby bindings for MRI 1.9 and JRuby 1.4 to contrib
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Andrew Reynhout
• Created: 30/Jan/10 18:42
• Updated: 03/Feb/12 17:02

Description

Add Ruby bindings to the ZooKeeper distribution.

Ruby presents special threading difficulties for asynchronous ZK calls (aget, watchers, etc). It looks like the simplest workaround is to patch the ZK C API.

Proposed approach will be described in comment.

Please use this ticket for discussion and suggestions.