thanks for your reply. I think you are right in what you say. It would be too much of a memory hog to do such a thing.
I will have to have a dedicated server for the hosting of the RoR app. I am building a point of sale system where the interface is html on a tablet pc, so I was digging into my options. May be best to just access a small linux server over wifi. On Mar 30, 2:18 pm, Walter Lee Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not aware of such a beast, but one thing to consider is memory and > processing speed. We use Rails because it maximizes our (developer) > productivity, and it does so at a cost of requiring a fairly studly > server to run the back-end. I haven't tried running RoR on anything > less than a 1/2 GB VPS. > > Now when I was just starting out in this tech wheeze, I had an off- > cast SE/30 running some Mac Web server, and it was pretty darned quick > on the local network. A pal of mine had installed Unix on his, and > hooked it to a T1, and could saturate the T with upstream traffic from > Apache. But that's static service, nothing dynamic. That SE/30, with > its 16MHz 68030 processor, 1 whole Megabyte of RAM, and creaky-slow > SCSI 1 hard disk could be speedier than the network when the task was > sized to it, but try to get it to also run a database server, an > application server, etc. at the same time as all those Web requests, > and you would have had a sad little putty-colored puddle. > > Now you're talking about running the server AND the browser in the > same memory- and process-limited environment. I don't think it's > realistic to expect this to work well or even at all. I use a beefy > Mac laptop to do the same thing for development purposes, but that's > orders of magnitude more processing power, available RAM, and storage > for data and swap. It's just not even in the same universe. And even > that beast can be quite noticeably slower than the same app running > from SliceHost over my network connection. > > Walter > > On Mar 30, 2011, at 5:13 AM, cipher_neo wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hey guys, > > > I am building an RoR web app that I would like to have fully contained > > in a tablet computer. > > > I would like to run the server on it, and also use it as the client. > > > Is this possible with any tablet computers out there at the moment? > > I really am aiming to get it working on the android tablet, but any > > tablet that allows you to install ruby and run a server would > > suffice. > > > any help appreciated! > > > Lee > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails- > > [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > . > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en > > . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
