Rails and Cassandra

Hi All,

 Does anyone in the group have any experience with Cassandra DB? We

are considering going with it for either a primary or secondary
database. We would like to know what others have found with it because
it seems that to even get it up and running will take a lot of hoop
jumping with thrift and what not.

 We are also having issues determining exactly how to get up and run

with it for experimentation.

 Any help/opinions/advice would be be appreciated.

Regards,

Jesse