Hello! I've got a little Ruby program that I whipped together to simplify backups of the database -- I use hbase org.jruby.Main to get the table names, and then run MR export jobs. That all works fine. However, when I get the table description as a string, the resulting hash keys such as NAME, FAMILIES, et cetra, are not defined in my Ruby program, even though they are available when I run hbase shell. I believe I've grabbed the appropriate HBase source files, but I've not yet been successful at finding where these constants are defined despite grepping through the entire source tree. Could someone point me in the right direction please? Thank you very much. Sincerely, Joseph Chiu
