Chunky Bacon – Using Amazon’s Webservices From Ruby

Description:

ChunkyBacon is a suite of applications that use Amazon’s Webservice APIs to produce bacon. Chunky bacon to be exact. Cartoon foxes then package up this chunky bacon.

Requirements:

• Merb 0.9+
• merb_sequel
• right_aws
• kato
• god

Installation:

  $ git clone http://github.com/daikini/chunky_bacon.git

Getting Started:

Configure Database

1. Edit the chunky_bacon/factory/config/database.yml file
2. Edit the chunky_bacon/ec2/config/database.yml file (need not be the same as the factory config)

Start Up the Processes

1. $ cd chunky_bacon/factory && merb

2. $ cd chunky_bacon/ec2 && merb -p 4001

3. $ cd chunky_bacon/factory && merb -r 'CartoonFox.get_packaged_bacon!'

4. $ cd chunky_bacon/factory && merb -r 'CartoonFox.supervise!'

Producing Chunky Bacon:

• Open browser to http://localhost:4000/
• Startup an interactive merb session

  $ cd chunky_bacon/factory && merb -i

  >> Slice.package!

  >> loop { Slice.package!; sleep 1.5 }

Have fun creating as much bacon as you want!

License:

chunky_bacon is licensed under the MIT License. Copyright (c) 2008 Jonathan Younger