anyone built a HandlerSocket plugin?

Hello,

The HandlerSocket plugin for MySQL 5.1 looks like it could be a great fit for RoR applications, to dramatically speed up simple calls like find(id):

Does anyone know of a project to try integrating it with ActiveRecord as a plugin? (I checked github and rubyforge but didn't find anything.) If not, I'm thinking of starting one and putting it up on Github.

Thanks, -Colin

I was thinking of this too - actually a hybrid plugin that used HandlerSocket when it could, and regular MySQL adapter when it couldn't. I was starting on a generic Ruby driver for HandlerSocket first. There's a ruby native driver that interfaces with the libhsclient.so that's built when HS is built, but I use JRuby more than MRI, so I would need something that was socket level at the Ruby layer.

Ping me offlist if you're interested in collaborating. I think HS is an awesome idea, and my simple benchmarks show it's as fast as Memcached locally.

Brian

An update for those who land here by google search. I started a GitHub project for this:

https://github.com/bketelsen/rockethandler