1 Thrift Ruby Software Library
3 Author: Mark Slee (mcslee@facebook.com)
4 Last Modified: 2007-Mar-05
6 Thrift is distributed under the Thrift open source software license.
7 Please see the included LICENSE file.
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12 Okay, I'll be honest. I learned Ruby by implementing the Thrift library in
13 Ruby and writing the code generator at the same time. I am not a trendy
14 web 2.0 programmer. Shit, I don't even know Rails. So if you care about Ruby
15 you will probably find that this is currently the least robust Thrift library
16 implementation. But there's plenty of time to improve it...
18 The source code for the Ruby library is designed for installation with the
19 Python-esque setup.rb utility, which is included here and redistributable
20 under the GPL license.
22 To install the Thrift Ruby libraries, become superuser and do:
28 Alternatively, if you know more about Ruby than me, you can improve the build
29 and installation process and contribute them back to this project. Wicked.