If you have read my previous post, “Map-Reduce With Ruby Using Hadoop“, then you will know that firing up a Hadoop cluster is really simple when you use Whirr. Without even ssh’ing on the machines in the cloud you can start-up your cluster and interact with it. In this post I’ll show you that it is just as easy to fire up a Cassandra cluster on Amazon EC2. Install Whirr I will fly through the setu