Quick Setup Ruby on Amazon EC2 to test SimpleDB speed

Start ec2 instances (pick developer image).

Login as root.

Install zlib (rubygems need this)

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://www.zlib.net/zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
tar -xvf zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
cd zlib-1.2.3
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make test
make install


Setup Rubygems

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/29548/rubygems-1.0.1.tgz
tar -xvf rubygems-1.0.1.tgz
cd rubygems-1.0.1
ruby setup.rb


Get a few gems
cd /
gem install uuid
gem install rake
gem install needle
gem install aws-sdb