[CODE4LIB] Quick Rails Question--FastCGI or modruby

2007-07-17 Thread Andrew Darby
Hello, all. I'm moving to a new server on my cheap hosted account, and have been presented with two Ruby options: FastCGI or modruby/eruby. I gather neither is the ideal option, but if you had to choose one right now--quick, which would it be? Thanks, Andrew

Re: [CODE4LIB] Quick Rails Question--FastCGI or modruby

2007-07-17 Thread Ross Singer
Andrew, Of your choices, I would have to go with FastCGI. If 'getting it running' isn't your problem, it works pretty well. Plus mod_ruby has other issues: http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/mod_ruby Good luck, -Ross. On 7/17/07, Andrew Darby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, all. I'm

Re: [CODE4LIB] Quick Rails Question--FastCGI or modruby

2007-07-17 Thread Nathan Vack
Ugh. Both suck. But.. FastCGI. I've never heard of anyone getting mod_ruby working properly with Rails... I think it starts the entire stack for each incoming request... which doesn't scale even if you're doing casual development work. -n On Jul 17, 2007, at 11:32 AM, Andrew Darby wrote:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Quick Rails Question--FastCGI or modruby

2007-07-17 Thread Michael J. Giarlo
Howdy Andrew, The fine folks over at LibraryFind have blogged a fair bit -- benchmarks included -- about Rails deployment options: http://blog.libraryfind.org/ Best of luck, -Mike On 7/17/07, Andrew Darby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, all. I'm moving to a new server on my cheap hosted

Re: [CODE4LIB] Quick Rails Question--FastCGI or modruby

2007-07-17 Thread Andrew Darby
Thanks Ross, Nathan and Mike. I've read bad things about both mod_ruby and FastCGI, but it's good to know which one you consider less sucky . . . . Andrew

[CODE4LIB] Citation parsing?

2007-07-17 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
Does anyone have any decent open source code to parse a citation? I'm talking about a completely narrative citation like someone might cut-and-paste from a bibliography or web page. I realize there are a number of differnet formats this could be in (not to mention the human error problems that

[CODE4LIB] XML schema for describing software applications?

2007-07-17 Thread Sharon Foster
Please forgive the cross-posting. For my final project in the class Digital Libraries, I am bringing together a bibliography (appliography?) of open source software applications and free web services that would be useful in the construction of digital libraries. (How self-referential can you

Re: [CODE4LIB] XML schema for describing software applications?

2007-07-17 Thread Michael J. Giarlo
Howdy Sharon, Not sure if this is perfect, but you might check out DOAP (Description of a Project). Quoth Wikipedia: *DOAP* (Description Of A Project) is an attempt to make an RDF schemahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDF_Schemaand XML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Markup_Language

Re: [CODE4LIB] XML schema for describing software applications?

2007-07-17 Thread Chris Gray
I think you'll find that OSD has died the death. Have you managed to find a copy of the DTD? You're probably better off with a more general metadata framework such as METS or RDF. There were some efforts at using RDF to describe RPM packages for GNU/Linux software but these are no longer

Re: [CODE4LIB] XML schema for describing software applications?

2007-07-17 Thread Corey A Harper
Sharon, Michael, others -- Within the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, the Tools Community is working on a Tools Application Profile. The AP is still in draft form, and draws heavily upon the DOAP namespace referenced by Michael. http://dublincore.org/groups/tools/map.shtml At present, the