Timeline for What's a good back-end for a stateful client/server app that uses Mathematica for a front end?
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| Mar 27, 2016 at 20:22 | vote | accept | ibeatty | ||
| Mar 26, 2016 at 15:29 | answer | added | Leonid Shifrin | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 26, 2016 at 2:56 | comment | added | ibeatty | I was using Rails as an example of a web app framework that provides an organized way to glue a web server (to handle client communication), program scripts (to handle application logic), template files (to handle views), and a database (to handle persistence) -- basically MVC. Didn't mean anything more specific than that. | |
| Mar 26, 2016 at 2:48 | comment | added | Christopher Haydock | Rails noob question: Apparently you want to build a RESTful back-end for your existing student Mathematica notebooks. So where is the web application that would make a Rails web application framework relevant to building this back-end? | |
| Mar 25, 2016 at 22:18 | comment | added | ibeatty | @ChristopherHaydock I just added an update providing more specificity. I haven't provided actual dummy calls because I'm entirely unsure of what such calls would or should look like. I could make something up, but it would just be pseudocode saying the same thing as my prose update. | |
| Mar 25, 2016 at 22:17 | history | edited | ibeatty | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added an update providing a more specific idea of what I'm trying to do.
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| Mar 25, 2016 at 21:11 | comment | added | C. E.♦ |
All users have unique CloudEvaluate[$WolframUUID] so you could have them send theirs to you. Then you could use CreateDataBin to create a databin for each Wolfram UUID (i.e. use permissions to restrict access). When a user calls your cloud API function you can use $RequesterWolframUUID to examine that user's databin and return a progress report.
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| Mar 25, 2016 at 20:41 | comment | added | Christopher Haydock | It might be helpful to give a few lines of code for a very simple physics problem that could be in a hypothetical student notebook. For now this code could just generate a bit of the interface that the student sees and include dummy calls to back-end services that would be needed to support your example code. | |
| Mar 25, 2016 at 20:21 | comment | added | alancalvitti | Fyi, are you aware of emeraldcloudlab.com - this is a beta-stage cloud-based life sciences startup. In addition to the ECL-1 robotics plant, uses Amazon AWS for data & computation and Wolfram stack for its SLL = Symbolic Lab Language. | |
| Mar 25, 2016 at 20:01 | history | asked | ibeatty | CC BY-SA 3.0 |