Fog: A Powerful “Cloud Services” Gem

Fog: A Powerful “Cloud Services” Gem #AWS #cloud

fog is a Ruby gem by Wesley Beary to control a variety of cloud services through a unified API . It deals with both server cloud and storage based services and supports Amazon S3 and Rackspace Files; as well as servers and on Amazon EC2 , Rackspace Servers, Terremark vCloud and Slicehost. Support is also available for Amazon ELB and SimpleDB. The beauty of fog is how the same code interacts with different cloud services. It uses models, an idea familiar to anyone who has used an object mapper (like ActiveRecord), to abstract the common parts between cloud services. That leads to code that you can switch between cloud services easily. For handling features exclusive to a particular service, fog's Requests help you do just that. That means every cloud service has an internal API that you can use to utilize the uncommon feature of a particular service. To give you a feel of i...

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