On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
> [email protected] wrote:
> > With BigTable.... I think there would be a considerable amount of re-
> > thinking needed to get Rails to use it effectively.
> >
> > From what I've read, Google app engine wont necessarily scale well if
> > you blindly attempt to use it in a similar fashion as relational
> > databases
> >
> >
> >
> >> GAE is not a great platform for Rails  due to things like its hard
> 1000-file limit
> >
> > yeah I'm not sure about that limit.... if it's relating to project
> > files, that's not so bad...
>
> Yes it is.  Remember that you need to put Rails in your vendor directory
> to host it on GAE.  That's 1556 files right there (for 2.3.4), and
> you're over the limit without any actual app code.  Headius was only
> able to get Rails on GAE by removing framework files.
>
>
You can actually package all your gems including rails into a single jar
file to work around this issue.  Also, Google has provided tools to simply
do just that.

-Conrad


> > but I assume gernal website assets and
> > user content is in some way separate, or can be done through s3 etc
>
> Presumably.
>
> Best,
> --
> Marnen Laibow-Koser
> http://www.marnen.org
> [email protected]
>
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
> >
>

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