From: Marcin Raczkowski <swistak@...>
Date: 2007-04-11T20:37:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Web Hosting

On Wednesday 11 April 2007 09:58, Eleanor McHugh wrote:
> 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
> ----
> raise ArgumentError unless @reality.responds_to? :reason

I'm not sure what author of this tread is trying to acomplish, if you want to 
make your own hosting company - just use soap interfaces to domain 
registers - they are preaty good documented. 

If you think about writing domain registration interface on your own - forget 
it, you clearly don't have skills to do that.

As Ellenor said there's no "easy"  and "free" interface in ruby (yet), so 
either use one i posted earlier (it's preaty low level tho) or rethink geting 
into webhosting buisnes

Marcin Raczkowski