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+require 'red_storm'
+java_import 'storm.kafka.KafkaConfig'
+java_import 'storm.kafka.SpoutConfig'
+java_import 'storm.kafka.StringScheme'
+java_import 'storm.kafka.KafkaSpout'
+
+
+class KafkaTopology < RedStorm::SimpleTopology
+  spout_config = SpoutConfig.new(
+    KafkaConfig::ZkHosts.new("localhost:2181", "/brokers"),
+    "words",        # topic to read from
+    "/kafkastorm",  # Zookeeper root path to store the consumer offsets
+    "discovery"     # Zookeeper consumer id to store the consumer offsets
+  )
+  spout_config.scheme = StringScheme.new
+
+  class SplitStringBolt < RedStorm::SimpleBolt
+    on_receive {|tuple| tuple.getString(0).split.map{|w| [w]}}
+  end
+
+  spout KafkaSpout, [spout_config]
+      
+  bolt SplitStringBolt do
+    output_fields :word
+    source KafkaSpout, :shuffle
+  end
+
+  configure do |env|
+    debug true
+  end
+
+  on_submit do |env|
+    if env == :local
+      sleep(10)
+      cluster.shutdown
+    end
+  end
+end
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