From: thunk <gmkoller@...>
Date: 2010-04-07T13:00:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Heroku progamming

On Apr 6, 10:32 pm, Josh Cheek <josh.ch...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 10:20 PM, thunk <gmkol...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroku
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> > Hello,
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> > We have a Ruby program that:
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> > 1.  Is based on Wee + rack
> > 2.  Accepts input from a browser/client
> > 3.  Generates a text file,  which is also a ruby class
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> > Is this an appropriate 'Ruby' topic?
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> > If so:
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> > 1  Does 'Heroku' seem like the best place for such a simple program?
> > 2. There seemed to be issues with simple file saving but we have no
> > long term interest in RDMS (would use couchDB/JSON)
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> > If it is, can anybody point to potential problems?
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> > Respectfully,
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> > gk
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> 3 will be a problem, you can't write to Heroku's file system. When we deploy
> on Heroku, we use Amazon to store files (pictures, mp3s, etc).

Josh,

Your point, is what I remember not being clear about.

Thank you!

On a single user system we are using the following code to load
textfiles into the program as executable classes.

http://gist.github.com/358497

I remain unclear if this can be done on Heroku, and how.

Can the newly created text file be saved to Amazon?

If so, how is this done?  (Normal File IO? somehow?)

If we stored the text files into a RDMS, can you think of a way to
become classes in the running program?

Is there a "work-around" to accomplish this somehow?

Thank you!

gk