Comments on: RoR Data Warehouse on EC2 http://blog.gobansaor.com/2007/06/25/ror-data-warehouse-on-ec2/ A country datasmith. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:22:28 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Zimki - the spirt lives on … « Gobán Saor http://blog.gobansaor.com/2007/06/25/ror-data-warehouse-on-ec2/#comment-3444 Zimki - the spirt lives on … « Gobán Saor Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:42:28 +0000 http://gobansaor.wordpress.com/2007/06/25/ror-data-warehouse-on-ec2/#comment-3444 [...] Although Heroku uses Ruby-on-Rails technology, rather than JavaScript, it is closer to the original Zimki idea; but rather than take the hard (and ultimately unsuccessful in Zimki’s case) road of building an open-source platform from scratch, Heroku takes an already popular open-source project and offers it wrapped in a full on-line development and deployment environment. Again, being in beta, there’s no indication as to what pricing model it will operate under, but I would think that it will attract more “serious” projects than AppJet since anything developed under Heroku is pure Rails which means it can be migrated to any other Rails hosting environment; so no lock-in. The online editor is excellent and whatever about its merits as a hosting service it’s by far the easiest way to learn and explore Ruby and Rails, even easier than this… [...] [...] Although Heroku uses Ruby-on-Rails technology, rather than JavaScript, it is closer to the original Zimki idea; but rather than take the hard (and ultimately unsuccessful in Zimki’s case) road of building an open-source platform from scratch, Heroku takes an already popular open-source project and offers it wrapped in a full on-line development and deployment environment. Again, being in beta, there’s no indication as to what pricing model it will operate under, but I would think that it will attract more “serious” projects than AppJet since anything developed under Heroku is pure Rails which means it can be migrated to any other Rails hosting environment; so no lock-in. The online editor is excellent and whatever about its merits as a hosting service it’s by far the easiest way to learn and explore Ruby and Rails, even easier than this… [...]

]]> By: gobansaor http://blog.gobansaor.com/2007/06/25/ror-data-warehouse-on-ec2/#comment-2952 gobansaor Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:54:16 +0000 http://gobansaor.wordpress.com/2007/06/25/ror-data-warehouse-on-ec2/#comment-2952 Thanks Kai for the suggestion, however it looks like SplogSpot are not publishing the dumps any longer; the http://splogspot.com/dump/ folder holds only a test.txt file. Tom Thanks Kai for the suggestion, however it looks like SplogSpot are not publishing the dumps any longer; the http://splogspot.com/dump/ folder holds only a test.txt file.

Tom

]]> By: kai http://blog.gobansaor.com/2007/06/25/ror-data-warehouse-on-ec2/#comment-2951 kai Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:23:23 +0000 http://gobansaor.wordpress.com/2007/06/25/ror-data-warehouse-on-ec2/#comment-2951 if you need a big dataset, you should get weekly splog dumps at http://splogspot.com/ if you need a big dataset, you should get weekly splog dumps at http://splogspot.com/

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