Risky

A simple, lightweight object layer for Riak.

$ gem install risky

class User < Risky
  bucket :users
end

User.new('clu', 'fights' => 'for the users').save
User['clu']['fights'] #=> 'for the users'

Built on top of basho's excellent riak-client, Risky provides basic infrastructure for designing models with attributes (including defaults and casting to/from JSON), conflict resolution, validation, lifecycle callbacks, link-walking, mapreduce, and more. Modules are available for timestamps, chronologically ordered lists, and secondary indexes (2i).

Risky does not provide the rich API of Ripple, but it also does not require activesupport. It strives to be understandable, minimal, and modular. Magic is avoided in favor of module composition and a compact API.

Risky stores every instance of a model in a given bucket, indexed by key. Objects are stored as JSON hashes.

class User < Risky
  include Risky::Indexes
  include Risky::Timestamps

  bucket :users

  # Provides user.name instead of user['name']
  value :name
  value :twitter, :default => {}

  # :class is used to cast times from JSON back into Time objects.
  value :updated_at, :class => Time
  value :created_at, :class => Time

  # Provides User.by_name. Changing the name stores an object in the
  # users_by_name bucket, with key user.name, linking back to us. A
  # validate function is used to ensure uniqueness before saving.
  index :name, :unique => true

  # Here, a custom proc returns the key used for the index.
  index :twitter_id, :proc => lambda { |user| user.twitter['id'] }

  # Provides user.followers, a list of links with the 'followers' tag.
  links :followers
end

Dalibor Nasevic (@dalibor) Marc Heiligers (@marcheiligers)

Risky was developed by Kyle Kingsbury aphyr@aphyr.com at http://vodpod.com, for their iPad social video app "Showyou". Generous thanks to Sean Cribbs, Mark Phillips, the Basho team, and all the other #riak'ers. Released under the MIT license.