Category Archives: Ruby

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Managing Large-Scale User-Access Control with the RightScale API

What’s with the check boxes you ask? It’s a partial visual representation of what it looks like to manage 83 users, 15 RightScale accounts, and 11 permissions for each user in each account. That’s 13,695 check boxes I’d potentially need … Continue reading

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RightScale Ruby Cloud Gems released

We’ve just re-released all the Ruby gems (libraries) we use to interface to the various cloud providers. These gems are what we use in our RightScale platform in production, not some stripped-down version. They have performance optimizations and extensive error … Continue reading

Posted in AWS, EC2, FlexiScale, RightAws, RightGrid, Ruby, S3, SQS | 14 Comments

RightAws release 1.7.0, including ActiveSDB alpha

We released a new version of our Ruby library gem for accessing AWS Services, including EC2, S3, SQS, and SDB: RightAws 1.7.0 is now available off rubyforge.  This version includes enhancements of the EC2 interface to support Elastic IP addresses, … Continue reading

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New Right_aws Ruby gem released

We just released a new version of our Right_aws ruby gem on RubyForge. This gem provides Ruby interfaces for Amazon EC2, S3, and SQS using Amazon’s REST and query interfaces to provide full programmatic control of the three services. An … Continue reading

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