Results tagged “ruby” from Tech Observer: Linux And Open Source

More ruby stuff, this is a ruby library implementing MapReduce which is a programming model and an associated implementation for processing and generating large data sets.

Users specify a map function that processes a key/value pair to generate a set of intermediate key/value pairs, and a reduce function that merges all intermediate values associated with the same intermediate key.

skynet

Skynet is an open source Ruby implementation of Google’s Map/Reduce framework, created at Geni.com. With Skynet, one can easily convert a time-consuming serial task, such as a computationally expensive Rails migration, into a distributed program running on many computers.

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this is very good. very interactive, it engages the student, and keeps the interest level up. Should be suitable for 9 years and up!

Ruby Tutorial Hackety Hack

I haven't tried out S3 yet, though a script like this running on a test server allows you to test out the functionality some. At least save a few pennies.

Park Place

So, it's really not much, but it does handle most things, and it's decent enough... It's Park Place, a clone of Amazon's S3 (Simple Storage Service.) It's written entirely in Ruby, with heaps of help from the Camping 4k web framework. Oh, and no SOAP support to speak of.

Update! Now with torrent support!