From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2009-07-12T01:21:18+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby Versions site; shell access to historical and current  Rubies

On Jul 11, 2009, at 11:10 AM, Caleb Clausen wrote:

> On 7/11/09, David A. Black <dblack@rubypal.com> wrote:
>> 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).
>
> Wow, this sounds like it will be extremely useful.
>
> I wonder if you could say a word about security, since it's obviously
> a big concern with a service of this type...

Is it?

I suspect David has the EC2 image saved on S3.  If you screw up his  
instance he can stop it, load a fresh copy from the S3 image, and move  
the elastic IP to point at the new instance.

It's not like you'll be stealing his data or breaking into his  
computer, right?

James Edward Gray II