dan
December 28, 2006, 1:36am
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I’m still learning RoR and wish I had some real bulk content to
manipulate and possibly create interesting applications with as proof of
experience.
Is there anywhere to download a database, perhaps even with a schema, of
things like:
price of a load of bread each year for the last 100 years
famous quotes, with national orginal, date, who said it
list of award winners throughout history
car makes and models
Top 40 music artists and songs
anything else…
Maybe there’s an open public license for such content that’s available
some where?
Thanks,
DAN
dan
December 28, 2006, 1:46am
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I vaguely remember the following government sites having some data (not
particularly exciting data, but data non-the-less)
I’m sure they are in raw format, not a db as you requested though.
www.bls.gov/data/home.htm
www.fedstats.gov
www.bea.gov
dan
December 28, 2006, 1:50am
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Well, when I needed something recently I grabbed the Rails Subversion
logs. Other interesting sorts of content could include data from
RSS feeds, articles from wikipedia, spending budgets for the US
military and so much more. There’s tons of content out there, but
you’re probably going to have parse it.
V/r
Anthony E.
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dan
December 29, 2006, 1:28am
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Not exactly what you wanted, but you might find it useful: Perl’s
Data::Faker
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Building an e-commerce site with Rails?
http://www.agilewebdevelopment.com/rails-ecommerce