[Orca-dev] Orca on rails?

[Cynthia Kiser]

Quoting Cockcroft, Adrian <acockcroft at ebay.com>:
> 
> I'm thinking of using the Ruby on Rails framework to build a simple and flexible web service that indexes and returns orca (and related) data from a node. Has anyone else got any advice or experience in this area?
> 
> Cheers Adrian

I am using orca and starting to do some Ruby on Rails development, so
your idea Sounds interesting to me. One thing that is a mismatch
between the current orca set up and rails is the datastore: a sql
database vs rrdtool. What are your intentions about that? Writing a
version of orca that stored all the data in a database doesn't sound
hard, but in addition to the issue that that locks you into an ever
increasing data store (as opposed to constant size with a round robin
database), you would have to either write SQL that was able to segment
the data and average it or you would need to have additional, derived
tables that contained averages. The later would be more efficient -
but leads to even larger database size.

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Cynthia Kiser
cnk at caltech.edu