From: Feng Tien <pood.forums@...>
Date: 2007-11-28T01:45:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Executing ruby script on a Dreamhost account?

Peter Szinek wrote:
> Hi Feng,
> 
>> My program will grab each url one by one and run my scraper method with 
>> the url and it will output an html file.
> 
> Isn't that scRUBYt! by any chance? :-) Well, it doesn't matter whether
> it's scRUBYt!, a Hpricot script or whatever similar, your process will
> be kicked to death really fast - or at least that was the situation when
> I last tried. Maybe they improved their policies somewhat - however I
> doubt that dream  would be usable for these kind of things even after 
> that.
> 
> Your best shot is slicehost - it's cheap, fast, easy to setup, great
> support and no nagging. Dreamhost is great for blogs, gallery, wikis and
> that sort of stuff (apart from the ocassional screwups and slowdowns).
> However, hands off if you are trying to run a Ruby script there (unless
> it's Rails or something they accept).
> 
> Just my 2c... let me know if you have a different experience.
> 
> Cheers,
> Peter
> ___
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> http://scrubyt.org

yup, it's Scrubyt;)

Would this work better with Rails? I have an dedicated box I have access 
to.
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