Re:AppEngine doesn’t fit the needs of startups on the runway
by knowtheory on Friday June 05, 2009 @03:44PM
(#643818)
Ha ha! Not with Ruby! :) The Ruby community is building tools that abstracts away from the idiosyncrasies of AppEngine in such a way that you hopefully will be able to run your apps wherever, with minimal effort on your part.
You won't be locked in. If you need to get out you can :)
(Specifically, people like ribrdb, who himself is a googler, has produced a Ruby api wrapper [handily called appengine-apis] for the Java API, and an adapter that interfaces with one of Ruby's ORM/DataStore libraries called DataMapper. Data access as a result is uniform from an end user perspective across environments)
You won't be locked in. If you need to get out you can :)
(Specifically, people like ribrdb, who himself is a googler, has produced a Ruby api wrapper [handily called appengine-apis] for the Java API, and an adapter that interfaces with one of Ruby's ORM/DataStore libraries called DataMapper. Data access as a result is uniform from an end user perspective across environments)