January 2012
3 posts
Thrift installation woes part II: Using Thrift...
More notes on thrift setup, mostly for my own reference, but hopefully they’ll be useful to anyone else in the same situation.
So, following my last post, you’ve got thrift set up on your local machine. However, you’re using the highly useful kerl tool to work with different erlang versions, and you want to use both this and thrift with your project. This means you need to...
Jruby on Elephants
A few months ago, I gave a talk at the excellent Ruby Manor conference about using Jruby with Mahout to do machine-learning (More specifically, to detect twitter messages containing pictures of kittens). There’s now a video of it online, as well as slides and code.
One small additional note - my explanation of Logistic Regression is a little confused, and is subtly but fundamentally...
Installing Thrift on Ubuntu Oneiric, with Ruby...
A few notes, to save my sanity if and when I run into this again.
Get the thrift sources from SVN, untar the file, then add a Gemfile to the root of the source tree:
source "http://rubygems.org"
gem "mongrel", "=1.2.0.pre2"
gem "rspec", "=1.3.2"
gem "rake", "0.9.2"
Then run bundle install. The Haskell bindings require the Binary library to be installed in cabal. This needs to be done globally,...