How to save a file in MapR HDFS using Ruby

Question

Is there a way to save a file in HDFS using MapR distribution of Hadoop from Ruby?

Apparently, there's a Thrift API called thriftfs that makes it possible to communicate with HDFS from clients but looks like it is not bundled with MapR.

Answer 1

I also answered this question at http://answers.mapr.com/questions/1525/how-to-run-thriftfs-from-mapr?page=1#1528

The basic idea is that languages like Ruby don't need language specific bindings to get access to the file system of a MapR cluster. Instead, all you need to do is mount the cluster as an NFS file system and you are good to go with any file access that you can dream up. This makes scripting in a Hadoop environment vastly easier.