There's no direct support for Ruby. But, you can wrap up a recommender as a servlet-based app, deploy it on Tomcat, and access it via HTTP. See the tutorial, and the taste-webapp module for an easy way to do that.
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Umar Hansa <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > I'm Umar, I was looking into using collaborative filtering for a web > application I'm making for my final project at university. > > My application is built using the Ruby on Rails framework and I was > wondering if Mahout can integrate with this? > > Here's a sumary of what I want to do: > There are a few thousand items and some users, each user can "rate" an > item, > when a user rates an item I would like them to be presented with other > items > which other users have rated on and those users should have rated similar > items which the user in question has rated....I hope that makes sense! > > My main concern is how I can get Rails which uses an Sqlite database to > interact with Mahout, I've heard a bit about "hadoop", would I need to get > this running to use Mahout? > > Any advice you have would be much appreciated. > > Thank you for your time. > > Regards > > Umar >
