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Installing the Aerospike Ruby Client

Use the Aerospike Ruby client to develop Ruby applications to store and retrieve data in the Aerospike database.

Prerequisites​

The Aerospike Ruby client requires Ruby version v1.9.3+, and supports MRI and Rubinious.

The Aerospike Ruby client implements the wire protocol. It does not depend on the C client. It is thread-safe and asynchronous.

Supported operating systems:

  • Major Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Debian, Redhat)
  • macOS
  • Windows (untested)

Installing​

  1. Install Ruby 2.3.0 or later
  2. Install the gem:
gem install aerospike

Running Tests​

The Aerospike Ruby client uses RSpec for testing.

To run all tests:

$ bundle exec rspec