andrewle

#! /usr/bin/env ruby

# this script can create a static build from virtually any rails' project.  it
# has two simple requirements.
#
# 1) you have
#
#   gem 'passenger'
#
# in your Gemfile

andrewle

Leader Election With Ruby & PostgreSQL

The Problem

I have a table with millions of rows that needs processing. The type of processing is not really important for this article. We simply need to process some data with Ruby --or any other user-space programming language.

A Solution

andrewle

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'chef'
require 'chef/client'
require 'chef/run_context'

Chef::Config[:solo] = true
Chef::Config[:log_level] = :info
Chef::Log.level(:info)

andrewle

require 'net/http'
require 'uri'

# POST /api/v1/:format/new
# GET  /api/v1/:format/gists/:user
# GET  /api/v1/:format/:gist_id
                                                 
res = Net::HTTP.post_form(URI.parse('http://gist.github.com/api/v1/xml/new'),
		      { 'files[file1.ab]' => 'CONTNETS', 
		        'files[file2.ab]' => 'contents' })