[LRUG] [JOBS] A small job

[Michael Pavling]

Hiya

Regarding the work I was reaching out for someone for, I've passed on the
details I've received so far and I'm told the client are moving forward
with someone. But if for any reason they need more/alternate help, I'll be
back in touch direct to those others that have replied.

Cheers LRUG!


On 24 August 2014 09:45, Michael Pavling <pavling at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hiya,
>
> A client of mine from many moons ago has asked me to assist in migrating a
> little Rails app from a self-hosted machine machine to a new VM
> infrastructure. I don't have the capacity to fit this in at the moment (and
> I gather that time is a factor for them) so I thought I'd put it out here
> to see if anyone might be interested.
>
> It's a Rails 1.2 app with MySQL running on Ubuntu. No particularly exotic
> gems AFAICR - except for the age of what's there.
>
> It *should* just be a case of downing the current app, backing up the DB,
> and migrating it. *but* they have no Linux skills in house, so you might
> have to install the new OS on the new VM and even if they've done that,
> you'll have to install/setup the DB and get Ruby (1.8.7 - but *maybe*
> older...) and Rails 1.x (1.2, I think) installed.
>
> They route some requests from their web site to the app for some XML
> results, and have a UI that they use on the Intranet - but ensuring all the
> network access is working, I would say would be their responsibility. If
> you can show the app responding on the new server, that should be the limit
> of the work.
>
> So it shouldn't be a huge job - one day, maybe a little contingency.
> But the trickiest bit is that they are in Basingstoke, and *might* prefer
> to have someone there onsite doing the work (even though the new host is in
> the "cloud").
> If anyone is interested (particularly any HantsRB-ists lurking!), please
> drop me a line offlist, and I'll put you in touch.
>
>
> Regards,
> Michael
>
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