SimpleBackr for SimpleDB Now has Simple Restores

SimpleBackr now has restores! After you're backup is done and you receive your backup is complete email, you'll see a link on your backup report to "Restore from this backup".

Just click that, enter your destination SimpleDB credentials and start the restore process. That's it!

And like the backup process, restores are also free... as in free lunch.

All Our Gems Are Belong to Gemcutter

So after github left us all hanging out to dry, Gemcutter is quickly becoming it's replacement and apparently the future of gem hosting. After working with gemcutter a bit, I'm actually becoming quite fond of it. It's easy to use and you get instant gem publishing.

To start using gemcutter as a source, it only takes a couple seconds:

1. gem install gemcutter
2. gem tumble (this adds gemcutter to the top of your gem sources list)

Then you'll want to uninstall and reinstall old gems as it appears that gem update will still grab from rubyforge if they existed there and you'll want to remove all your github sourced gems.

Here are the new homes for our main Appoxy gems:

• Amazon Web Services Gem - gem install aws
• SimpleRecord Gem - gem install simple_record
• MiniFB Facebook API Gem - gem install mini_fb
• CloudCache Gem - gem install cloud_cache 
• LocalCache Gem - gem install local_cache

Alright, now hopefully Gemcutter sticks around for a while so we don't have to do this again.

We're Going to Aloha on Rails

Appoxy will be in Waikiki, Hawaii next week for the Aloha on Rails conference. If you're going to be there and would like to meet up with us, please let us know. We love talking shop with fellow Rails folk and if you want to know more about using Ruby on Rails with Amazon, that's our specialty. You can probably find us at the conference during the day and Duke's at night (and day).

Aloha!