Hey Alex, I've done a little testing with a similar setup.

I just fired up a farm with a single rails instance, then went to
"Roles->Add new", and created a new custom role based on the running
rails instance.  Once the new role was available, I fired it up,
installed postgres, configured everything and did a "Synchronize
All".  That left me with a postgres/rails combo server.  You can
install whatever software you want, and configure it any way that you
want to, so sphinx or solr shouldn't be a problem.

You may already be aware, but just in case, any data that you change
on your instance must be saved by doing a "Synchronize All" or you
will loose your changes.  Also I think that the /mnt partition is the
ephemeral storage and will always be lost upon relaunch/reboot.
(Somebody correct me if that's wrong.)  You'll probably want to hook
up an ESB volume to get some persistent storage.

I'm currently trying to get a robust postgres installation figured out
(proper backups, fail over, SNMP traps, etc...).  When I have
something working reasonably well I'll figure out how to share the
details.

Jeremy



On Aug 9, 8:27 pm, Alex <[email protected]> wrote:
> I emailed support but thought it would be better to ask here.
>
> I have a rails app and am using postgres. Is there any way to add
> support for postgres myself or is that planned?
>
> I'd also like to run my app on one instance in the beginning as my
> load doesn't yet justify more.  None of the Amis have the full stack
> right now.
>
> Lastly, how can I add something for search like sphinx or solr to a
> scalr ami?
>
> Thanks.  I hope I can make scalr fit my application.
>
> -Alex

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