On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 11:34 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > You can try downloading the driver yourself and following the instructions > for building it. You will see that it fails to build. If you hack it so > that it compiles, then you can't connect to the database because you get a > run-time error that the command doesn't exist or the module can't be found > or blah-blah. Then if you deal with that issue... (on and on...). > > Now I look and see that many people who are trying to fork or fix the code > on github have issued pull requests and left comments that this needs to be > fixed or that needs to be fixed (and some comments say the code no longer > compiles) but the comments are months to years old and have still gone > unresponded to. > > I guess I'm not surprised. This is what always happens to me when I work in > Erlang. Erlang itself is great, considered in a vacuum. But once you leave > the solace of anything that was shipped with it, it turns into a ghetto. > Even products WRITTEN in Erlang will support every language on the planet > BUT Erlang. > > I guess I would ask how ChicagoBoss is solving the issue... but I'm not sure > I want to even try anymore. I don't think I want to rest a project's fate > on a joke unmaintained driver. > > Thanks. >
Sorry for my limited response. I should have specified from my end that this worked with the rebar get-deps compile command run from an app generated by the ChicagoBoss codebase And, as it turns out, Evan clued (me) in that CB uses a custom (forked) driver in it's dependencies. > > On Wednesday, January 8, 2014 6:01:33 PM UTC+7, Holocene wrote: >> >> I have just done a test myself with latest CB from >> https://github.com/ChicagoBoss/ChicagoBoss using erlang R16B02 on >> Ubuntu 12.04 with Mongodb installed. I am able to successfully connect >> CB with Mongodb. So, if you can provide more information on the errors >> you see, we can help >> >> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Zachary Kessin <[email protected]> wrote: >> > What errors are you getting from the compiler? >> > >> > --Zach >> > >> > >> > >> > On 1/8/14, 6:17 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> >> >> Hello, >> >> >> >> Am I correct that ChicagoBoss uses MongoDB? >> >> >> >> I have been trying for 2 days to get the MongoDB Erlang driver as >> >> referenced on the MongoDB website to work. It won't compile using >> >> rebar, it >> >> won't do this, it won't do that, and when I 'hack' the code by hand to >> >> get >> >> it to compile, and then stick it in the Erlang lib directories, it just >> >> doesn't work. >> >> >> >> The thing seems old and unmaintained. How does ChicagoBoss utilize >> >> this >> >> thing? Any tips from anyone using it? >> >> >> >> I'd really like to try MongoDB out, but I also have little patience for >> >> this kind of slop in software. It tends to force me onto more 'tried >> >> and >> >> true' stuff that "works," but at the same time I can never experiment >> >> or try >> >> out something cool or cutting edge or different. I hate that. >> >> >> >> Anyway, thanks. >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> >> Groups >> >> "ChicagoBoss" group. >> >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> >> an >> >> email to [email protected]. >> >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chicagoboss. >> >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> >> >> >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/chicagoboss/b17d229a-ab48-462f-849d-4fe33db5fc57%40googlegroups.com. >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > Groups >> > "ChicagoBoss" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> > an >> > email to [email protected]. >> > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chicagoboss. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> > >> > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/chicagoboss/52CD2F61.7090702%40gmail.com. >> > >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ChicagoBoss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chicagoboss. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/chicagoboss/ca074425-1b7c-4aa9-895f-7be55507946f%40googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChicagoBoss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chicagoboss. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/chicagoboss/CA%2BH5g6orpFxc2_Kz7v66cbAqR%2BeWMhKR18nZOT6g6LOSum7_DQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
