To develop and test your application locally, you can use the Cloud Bigtable
Emulator, which provides
local emulation
of the production Cloud Bigtable environment. You can start the Cloud Bigtable
emulator using the gcloud command-line tool.
To configure your ruby code to use the emulator, set the
BIGTABLE_EMULATOR_HOST environment variable to the host and port where the
emulator is running. The value can be set as an environment variable in the
shell running the ruby code, or can be set directly in the ruby code as shown
below.
require "google/cloud/bigtable"
# Make Pub/Sub use the emulator
ENV["BIGTABLE_EMULATOR_HOST"] = "localhost:8086"
bigtable = Google::Cloud::Bigtable.new "emulator-project-id"
