From: Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...>
Date: 2007-04-11T18:58:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Web Hosting

On 10 Apr 2007, at 13:00, manohar amrutkar wrote:
> On Apr 10, 1:21 pm, "Martin DeMello" <martindeme...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 3. If I wanted to implement my own hosting site, could I use ruby  
>> to do it,
>>
>> martin
>
> yes , i want to implement my own hosting website which will have
> features like search domain,
>
> domain name registration, transfer domain etc. Does ruby provides
> scripts for these applications?
>
> Is there any third party support for ruby APIs for such kind of
> application? I have only two books
>
> programming ruby and ruby on rails but they are not sufficient to
> implement this hosting website.
>
> Is there any tutorials do u know? please give me guidelines.

The simple answer is 'no'.
I spent a large part of last year writing DNS provisioning systems  
and to the best of my knowledge there are no available Ruby libraries  
for doing this. It's not particularly difficult to roll your own  
though, given a reasonable knowledge of one or more DNS servers, but  
it will probably require a couple of months' investment of time on  
your part.


Ellie

Eleanor McHugh
Games With Brains
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