[CODE4LIB] Quick Rails Question--FastCGI or modruby
Hello, all. I'm moving to a new server on my cheap hosted account, and have been presented with two Ruby options: FastCGI or modruby/eruby. I gather neither is the ideal option, but if you had to choose one right now--quick, which would it be? Thanks, Andrew
Re: [CODE4LIB] Quick Rails Question--FastCGI or modruby
Andrew, Of your choices, I would have to go with FastCGI. If 'getting it running' isn't your problem, it works pretty well. Plus mod_ruby has other issues: http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/mod_ruby Good luck, -Ross. On 7/17/07, Andrew Darby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, all. I'm moving to a new server on my cheap hosted account, and have been presented with two Ruby options: FastCGI or modruby/eruby. I gather neither is the ideal option, but if you had to choose one right now--quick, which would it be? Thanks, Andrew
Re: [CODE4LIB] Quick Rails Question--FastCGI or modruby
Ugh. Both suck. But.. FastCGI. I've never heard of anyone getting mod_ruby working properly with Rails... I think it starts the entire stack for each incoming request... which doesn't scale even if you're doing casual development work. -n On Jul 17, 2007, at 11:32 AM, Andrew Darby wrote: Hello, all. I'm moving to a new server on my cheap hosted account, and have been presented with two Ruby options: FastCGI or modruby/eruby. I gather neither is the ideal option, but if you had to choose one right now--quick, which would it be? Thanks, Andrew
Re: [CODE4LIB] Quick Rails Question--FastCGI or modruby
Howdy Andrew, The fine folks over at LibraryFind have blogged a fair bit -- benchmarks included -- about Rails deployment options: http://blog.libraryfind.org/ Best of luck, -Mike On 7/17/07, Andrew Darby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, all. I'm moving to a new server on my cheap hosted account, and have been presented with two Ruby options: FastCGI or modruby/eruby. I gather neither is the ideal option, but if you had to choose one right now--quick, which would it be? Thanks, Andrew
Re: [CODE4LIB] Quick Rails Question--FastCGI or modruby
Thanks Ross, Nathan and Mike. I've read bad things about both mod_ruby and FastCGI, but it's good to know which one you consider less sucky . . . . Andrew
[CODE4LIB] Citation parsing?
Does anyone have any decent open source code to parse a citation? I'm talking about a completely narrative citation like someone might cut-and-paste from a bibliography or web page. I realize there are a number of differnet formats this could be in (not to mention the human error problems that always occur from human entered free text)--but thinking about it, I suspect that with some work you could get something that worked reasonably well (if not perfect). So I'm wondering if anyone has donethis work. (One of the commerical legal product--I forget if it's Lexis or West--does this with legal citations--a more limited domain--quite well. I'm not sure if any of the commerical bibliographic citation management software does this?) The goal, as you can probably guess, is a box that the user can paste a citation into; make an OpenURL out of it; show the user where to get the citation. I'm pretty confident something useful could be created here, with enough time put into it. But saldy, it's probably more time than anyone has individually. Unless someone's done it already? Hopefully, Jonathan
[CODE4LIB] XML schema for describing software applications?
Please forgive the cross-posting. For my final project in the class Digital Libraries, I am bringing together a bibliography (appliography?) of open source software applications and free web services that would be useful in the construction of digital libraries. (How self-referential can you get? ;-)) I am looking for advice on finding, selecting, and using an existing XML schema that would include syntax for the type of application, target platforms, OSs, licensing, etc. In searching Ask.com and Google, I zeroed in on OSD, the Open Software Description Format, but I'm not finding a lot of new material about it, and I can't recall ever reading about it. Is this in fact the latest and greatest? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Sharon -- Sharon M. Foster, B.S., J.D., 0.5 * (MLS) F/OSS Evangelist Cheshire Public Library 104 Main Street Cheshire, CT 06410 http://www.cheshirelibrary.org My library school portfolio: http://home.southernct.edu/~fosters4/ Any opinions expressed here are entirely my own.
Re: [CODE4LIB] XML schema for describing software applications?
Howdy Sharon, Not sure if this is perfect, but you might check out DOAP (Description of a Project). Quoth Wikipedia: *DOAP* (Description Of A Project) is an attempt to make an RDF schemahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDF_Schemaand XML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Markup_Language vocabulary to describe open-source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source projects. It was created and initially developed by Edd Dumbill to convey semantically information associated with open-source software projects. It is currently used in O'Reilly's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Reilly_Media CodeZoohttp://www.codezoo.com/and the Apache Software Foundation'shttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Software_Foundation project page http://projects.apache.org/. There are currently generators, validators http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Validator, viewers and converters to enable more projects to be able to be included in the semantic webhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_web . Good luck, -Mike On 7/17/07, Sharon Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please forgive the cross-posting. For my final project in the class Digital Libraries, I am bringing together a bibliography (appliography?) of open source software applications and free web services that would be useful in the construction of digital libraries. (How self-referential can you get? ;-)) I am looking for advice on finding, selecting, and using an existing XML schema that would include syntax for the type of application, target platforms, OSs, licensing, etc. In searching Ask.com and Google, I zeroed in on OSD, the Open Software Description Format, but I'm not finding a lot of new material about it, and I can't recall ever reading about it. Is this in fact the latest and greatest? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Sharon -- Sharon M. Foster, B.S., J.D., 0.5 * (MLS) F/OSS Evangelist Cheshire Public Library 104 Main Street Cheshire, CT 06410 http://www.cheshirelibrary.org My library school portfolio: http://home.southernct.edu/~fosters4/ Any opinions expressed here are entirely my own.
Re: [CODE4LIB] XML schema for describing software applications?
I think you'll find that OSD has died the death. Have you managed to find a copy of the DTD? You're probably better off with a more general metadata framework such as METS or RDF. There were some efforts at using RDF to describe RPM packages for GNU/Linux software but these are no longer maintained. Some of the efforts that were going on 1997-2000 felt that they were superceded by improved package management tools in various GNU/Linux distributions and by sites like Sourceforge and Freshmeat. Chris Gray Library Systems University of Waterloo On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Sharon Foster wrote: Please forgive the cross-posting. For my final project in the class Digital Libraries, I am bringing together a bibliography (appliography?) of open source software applications and free web services that would be useful in the construction of digital libraries. (How self-referential can you get? ;-)) I am looking for advice on finding, selecting, and using an existing XML schema that would include syntax for the type of application, target platforms, OSs, licensing, etc. In searching Ask.com and Google, I zeroed in on OSD, the Open Software Description Format, but I'm not finding a lot of new material about it, and I can't recall ever reading about it. Is this in fact the latest and greatest? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Sharon -- Sharon M. Foster, B.S., J.D., 0.5 * (MLS) F/OSS Evangelist Cheshire Public Library 104 Main Street Cheshire, CT 06410 http://www.cheshirelibrary.org My library school portfolio: http://home.southernct.edu/~fosters4/ Any opinions expressed here are entirely my own.
Re: [CODE4LIB] XML schema for describing software applications?
Sharon, Michael, others -- Within the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, the Tools Community is working on a Tools Application Profile. The AP is still in draft form, and draws heavily upon the DOAP namespace referenced by Michael. http://dublincore.org/groups/tools/map.shtml At present, the Tools AP is largely focused on describing tools, algorithms and software applications for working with metadata. However, I think it is important that this work address the descriptive requirements of applications and web-services for supporting digital libraries, as well as being applicable to the needs of software preservation repositories. If anyone on this list has feedback on this draft proposal, I'd be happy to share it with the DCMI Tools Community, and would encourage those that are interested to join the DCMI Tools Mailing List, linked off of the Community homepage: http://dublincore.org/groups/tools/ -Corey -- Michael J. Giarlo wrote: Howdy Sharon, Not sure if this is perfect, but you might check out DOAP (Description of a Project). Quoth Wikipedia: *DOAP* (Description Of A Project) is an attempt to make an RDF schemahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDF_Schemaand XML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Markup_Language vocabulary to describe open-source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source projects. It was created and initially developed by Edd Dumbill to convey semantically information associated with open-source software projects. It is currently used in O'Reilly's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Reilly_Media CodeZoohttp://www.codezoo.com/and the Apache Software Foundation'shttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Software_Foundation project page http://projects.apache.org/. There are currently generators, validators http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Validator, viewers and converters to enable more projects to be able to be included in the semantic webhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_web . Good luck, -Mike On 7/17/07, Sharon Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please forgive the cross-posting. For my final project in the class Digital Libraries, I am bringing together a bibliography (appliography?) of open source software applications and free web services that would be useful in the construction of digital libraries. (How self-referential can you get? ;-)) I am looking for advice on finding, selecting, and using an existing XML schema that would include syntax for the type of application, target platforms, OSs, licensing, etc. In searching Ask.com and Google, I zeroed in on OSD, the Open Software Description Format, but I'm not finding a lot of new material about it, and I can't recall ever reading about it. Is this in fact the latest and greatest? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Sharon -- Sharon M. Foster, B.S., J.D., 0.5 * (MLS) F/OSS Evangelist Cheshire Public Library 104 Main Street Cheshire, CT 06410 http://www.cheshirelibrary.org My library school portfolio: http://home.southernct.edu/~fosters4/ Any opinions expressed here are entirely my own. -- Corey A Harper Metadata Services Librarian Bobst Library New York University 70 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 212.998.2479 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
