# Ruby Hadoop DFS Client?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-hadoop-dfs-client/117742>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [October 19, 2007, 9:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-hadoop-dfs-client/117742 "2007-10-19T21:04:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![bdeverea](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@bdeverea](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bdeverea)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 9:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-hadoop-dfs-client/117742/1 "2007-10-19T21:04:46Z")

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Has anyone seen a Ruby client library for the Hadoop distributed file  
system? We would love to use HDFS as a data store, but would like to  
consume it from Ruby.

I googled a bit, but couldn’t seem to detect any projects that tackle  
this effort. If one doesn’t exist, would anyone have suggestions about  
how such a library would be structured? I’d be glad to develop it.

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**Author:** ![bdeverea](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@bdeverea](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bdeverea)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 11:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-hadoop-dfs-client/117742/2 "2008-08-08T11:44:56Z")

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Bryan D. wrote:

> Has anyone seen a Ruby client library for the Hadoop distributed file  
> system? We would love to use HDFS as a data store, but would like to  
> consume it from Ruby.
> 
> I googled a bit, but couldn’t seem to detect any projects that tackle  
> this effort. If one doesn’t exist, would anyone have suggestions about  
> how such a library would be structured? I’d be glad to develop it.

This may not help you, but may help others who land here via Google or  
forum search:

“Writing Ruby Map-Reduce programs for Hadoop”, a basic intro to hadoop

- ruby.  
[http://www.raja-gopal.com/?p=42](http://www.raja-gopal.com/?p=42)