On 01/09/2009, at 3:18 PM, Nick Partridge wrote: > 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.
Not such a problem if you're running emacs with tramp - all the editing happens locally, with an scp when you save. > Distribute it across RORO laptops :), I'll happily run a build agent > for some ruby/haskell fun. Heh, it's tempting. Hubris is still a bit of a bitch to install, though - you need the Haskell Platform, GHC, and jhc, not to mention a heap of haskell libs. oh. and apparently the vmware solution isn't one :/ illegal to run mac software on anything but a big shiny machine with a picture of fruit on it. mark > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
