That's a good idea, data will be cheap too. "Occasional dev box" seems unlikely though. In my experience (which admittedly was 12 months ago), the latency to EC2 instances was too high to even edit files in the console comfortably. We tried running up a head-less x-session, it was horrible.
Distribute it across RORO laptops :), I'll happily run a build agent for some ruby/haskell fun. On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Mark Wotton <[email protected]> wrote: > That's true if you leave it on. I was thinking of using it as a buildbot - > the idea would be to come up with an image (EC2 ami file) that automatically > fetched the latest versions of the code it's meant to test, ran the test > suite, submitted the results somewhere, and closed it down in an orderly > fashion. That way, you probably don't need to run it for more than an hour a > day, which would bring it down to $50 a year (or maybe $100 with a bigger > instance). > The other use case was as an occasional dev box, and I'd be using it in a > bursty way there too. > > I could always run VMware and a mac image, I suppose (with a legal licence, > naturally). It's a bit convoluted, but maybe unavoidable. > > mark > > On 01/09/2009, at 2:13 PM, Nick Partridge wrote: > > You're probably better off grabbing a mac mini and using that. It'll come > out about the same in cost (amazon is about $1000/yr for the smallest > instance). Just need to have somewhere to plug in and leave on. > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Bodaniel Jeanes <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I highly doubt you will be able to get it working both from a >> technological standpoint and a legal one. That being said, if you figure it >> out -- do share! >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Mark Wotton <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> I imagine some of you guys must have looked into this before - I'd >>> like to set some buildbots up to make sure jhc and Hubris are under >>> continuous integration for Mac, and my laptop's not always online. Is >>> it possible to get a Mac image on EC2 without Steve Jobs' lawyers >>> hollowing you out and wearing you as an overcoat? >>> >>> mark >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
