I''m still learning RoR and wish I had some real bulk content to manipulate and possibly create interesting applications with as proof of experience. Is there anywhere to download a database, perhaps even with a schema, of things like: - price of a load of bread each year for the last 100 years - famous quotes, with national orginal, date, who said it - list of award winners throughout history - car makes and models - Top 40 music artists and songs - anything else... Maybe there''s an open public license for such content that''s available some where? Thanks, DAN -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
I vaguely remember the following government sites having some data (not particularly exciting data, but data non-the-less) I''m sure they are in raw format, not a db as you requested though. www.bls.gov/data/home.htm www.fedstats.gov www.census.gov www.bea.gov On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 01:36 +0100, DAN wrote:> I''m still learning RoR and wish I had some real bulk content to > manipulate and possibly create interesting applications with as proof of > experience. > > Is there anywhere to download a database, perhaps even with a schema, of > things like: > - price of a load of bread each year for the last 100 years > - famous quotes, with national orginal, date, who said it > - list of award winners throughout history > - car makes and models > - Top 40 music artists and songs > - anything else... > > Maybe there''s an open public license for such content that''s available > some where? > > Thanks, > DAN >--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Well, when I needed something recently I grabbed the Rails Subversion logs. :-) Other interesting sorts of content could include data from RSS feeds, articles from wikipedia, spending budgets for the US military and so much more. There''s tons of content out there, but you''re probably going to have parse it. V/r Anthony Eden On 12/27/06, DAN <rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org> wrote:> > I''m still learning RoR and wish I had some real bulk content to > manipulate and possibly create interesting applications with as proof of > experience. > > Is there anywhere to download a database, perhaps even with a schema, of > things like: > - price of a load of bread each year for the last 100 years > - famous quotes, with national orginal, date, who said it > - list of award winners throughout history > - car makes and models > - Top 40 music artists and songs > - anything else... > > Maybe there''s an open public license for such content that''s available > some where? > > Thanks, > DAN > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > >-- Cell: 808 782-5046 Current Location: Melbourne, FL --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Not exactly what you wanted, but you might find it useful: Perl''s Data::Faker http://search.cpan.org/~jasonk/Data-Faker-0.07/lib/Data/Faker.pm -- Building an e-commerce site with Rails? http://www.agilewebdevelopment.com/rails-ecommerce On Dec 27, 2006, at 4:36 PM, DAN wrote:> > I''m still learning RoR and wish I had some real bulk content to > manipulate and possibly create interesting applications with as > proof of > experience. > > Is there anywhere to download a database, perhaps even with a > schema, of > things like: > - price of a load of bread each year for the last 100 years > - famous quotes, with national orginal, date, who said it > - list of award winners throughout history > - car makes and models > - Top 40 music artists and songs > - anything else... > > Maybe there''s an open public license for such content that''s available > some where? > > Thanks, > DAN--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---