From: "David A. Black" Date: 2009-07-11T22:42:59+09:00 Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby Versions site; shell access to historical and current Rubies All I can say is: try it, and if it doesn't connect, try again. Apparently Amazon Elastic IP, with which this is my first experience, is flakier than one might wish (at least judging by the "Data error" indication in the AWS console that I was seeing). David On Sat, 11 Jul 2009, David A. Black wrote: > Sigh. ruby-versions.net has apparently decided to stop resolving. > (It's attached to an AWS Elastic IP address.) Stay tuned. I'll see > what I can do. > > > David > > On Sat, 11 Jul 2009, David A. Black wrote: > >> Hi all -- >> >> I've created a site called ruby-versions.net, on which I'm giving out >> shell accounts. The site gives you command-line access to Ruby >> versions dating back to 1.0, and several modern Ruby interpreters >> inclusing JRuby, Rubinius, and Ruby Enterprise Edition (as well as MRI >> 1.8.6, 1.8.7, 1.9.1, and development snapshots). >> >> To get a shell account, please start by reading >> http://ruby-versions.net, and use the link there to email me. That >> will help me semi-automate the process. >> >> ruby-versions.net is an EC2 instance, which means it's potentially a >> bit volatile.... I haven't decided how aggressively to back stuff up. >> Please treat it as a place to try things out, learn about Ruby >> history, compare versions and implementations -- but not as a >> development platform or a place from which to operate Internet >> services. >> >> Have fun! >> >> >> David >> >> -- >> David A. Black / Ruby Power and Light, LLC >> Ruby/Rails consulting & training: http://www.rubypal.com >> Now available: The Well-Grounded Rubyist (http://manning.com/black2) >> Training! Intro to Ruby, with Black & Kastner, September 14-17 >> (More info: http://rubyurl.com/vmzN) >> > > -- > David A. Black / Ruby Power and Light, LLC > Ruby/Rails consulting & training: http://www.rubypal.com > Now available: The Well-Grounded Rubyist (http://manning.com/black2) > Training! Intro to Ruby, with Black & Kastner, September 14-17 > (More info: http://rubyurl.com/vmzN) > -- David A. Black / Ruby Power and Light, LLC Ruby/Rails consulting & training: http://www.rubypal.com Now available: The Well-Grounded Rubyist (http://manning.com/black2) Training! Intro to Ruby, with Black & Kastner, September 14-17 (More info: http://rubyurl.com/vmzN)