Rubyists, this is for you!

[Sebastian Stadil]

Hi all,

Today, Scalr user BranchOut (career networking on facebook) released its first open-source code under its Github account, Rscalr – a Ruby implementation of Scalr's API.

The code allows them to script site release procedures, which is a Very Good Thing for a few reasons:

• Saves a ton of repetitive typing and clicking around web interfaces
• Creates consistent, repeatable operations and eliminates fat-finger mistakes
• Allows for automated status and sanity checks to find problems faster

Scalr provides a number of API client examples in different languages, but didn't have a Ruby example. Since a lot of their cloud management code is already in Ruby (via Chef), they thought having a Ruby client would be convenient, and a fun way to improve the author's Ruby proficiency.

You can checkout Rscalr here: https://github.com/branchout/rscalr or just install the gem via RubyGems: gem install rscalr

This is the first of many contributions that BranchOut Engineering is making to the open-source community, so we encourage you to follow them.

Cheers,

Sebastian

--

Follow us: Twitter - Facebook - Blog

[Thomas Orozco]

Hi Nate, 

I was curious to know how you guys are using this library you built at Branchout!

Is this a tool that you're using to interface with the Scalr API from Ruby applications? 

Are you using it as a developer tool for "CLI access" to Scalr (like https://github.com/Scalr/pecha would?)

Probably something else!

Thanks!

On Monday, February 4, 2013 9:56:29 PM UTC-8, Nate Smith wrote:

Thanks, Sebastian!

Very much a work in progress (especially the domain model code), but something I hope to continue to improve. I added support for environments this evening, so pull down 0.0.7 if you use multiple environments.

Best, 

nate

[Nate Smith]

Hi Thomas, 

The goal is to use rscalr in two ways: 

1. Connective tissue between our Jenkins CI targets and Scalr (e.g. to automatically deploy staging builds)

2. As a set of scripts to automate our site release process (ability to role a new WAR gradually across multple servers, etc.)

And a distant 3: To provide a unified internal web interface for controlling steps 1 and 2.

Hope that helps. 

nate

[Thomas Orozco]

Got it, thanks for the details!

Cheers, 

-- Thomas | tho...@scalr.com | +1 415 400 6771 

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google Groups "scalr-discuss" group.
To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/topic/scalr-discuss/ynu1mkv-BhQ/unsubscribe?hl=en-US.
To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to scalr-discus...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.