Hi,
I’m currently working on a data analysis project that involves
analysing and then injecting to my main database data held on a number
of different remote servers. My main RoR application is basically a
web viewer for the analysed data but it is also going to be used to
configure the data analysis on the remote machines.
I’m currently using the settings plugin found at
(see the 4 posts about the settings plugin) and it works nicely.
What I would like to be able to do is have small ruby apps located on
the remote machines that utilise this settings plugin and my
activerecord models to work out what data to analyse and then to
inject the results into my database. The scripts will be run
periodically as cron jobs or something similar.
Is it possible to utilise these aspects of my RoR application in
remote scripts? Would it be better to build controllers into the RoR
app and the scripts just call these controllers via xmlrpc, soap or as
http requests to deal with data entry etc.?
I’m quite new to projects of this size and so any advice would be
greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Toby
Ok, after thinking about it a little more, it makes sense to use
either a web service like XML-RPC or SOAP or take the RESTful
approach.
I have used XML-RPC before but not the RESTful approach. How do you
call a method on the server when using REST from say a script that
runs on a linux box? Is it possible? Does it make more sense just to
use XML-RPC for this?
Thanks,
Toby
On Aug 2, 10:47 am, “[email protected]” [email protected]
You mean activeresource ?
On 8/2/07, [email protected] [email protected] wrote:
Thanks,
configure the data analysis on the remote machines.
Is it possible to utilise these aspects of my RoR application in
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Cheers!
Could you elaborate? I haven’t used activeresource before…
Thanks,
Toby
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial&hs=pFY&q=rails+activeresource+tutorial&btnG=Search&meta=
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/browser/trunk/activeresource/README
On 8/2/07, [email protected] [email protected] wrote:
runs on a linux box? Is it possible? Does it make more sense just to
analysing and then injecting to my main database data held on a number
inject the results into my database. The scripts will be run
Thanks in advance,
Toby
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Cheers!
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Cheers!
I’m using rails 1.2. How do I get hold of activeresource? Is there a
plugin? Or do I have to go on edge?
On Aug 2, 12:21 pm, “[email protected]” [email protected]