README.md in elasticity-2.5.3 vs README.md in elasticity-2.5.5
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-(2012-11-30) Taking requests! I have a few ideas for what might be cool features though I'd rather work on what the community wants. Go ahead and file an issue!
+[](http://badge.fury.io/rb/elasticity)
+**(February 3, 2013)** Taking requests! I have a few ideas for what might be cool features though I'd rather work on what the community wants. Go ahead and file an issue!
+
Elasticity provides programmatic access to Amazon's Elastic Map Reduce service. The aim is to conveniently abstract away the complex EMR REST API and make working with job flows more productive and more enjoyable.
+**Travis has been flaky, failing builds before they start. "Trust me", it's green :)**
+
[](http://travis-ci.org/rslifka/elasticity) REE, 1.8.7, 1.9.2, 1.9.3
Elasticity provides two ways to access EMR:
* **Indirectly through a JobFlow-based API**. This README discusses the Elasticity API.
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```
### Adding a Streaming Step
```ruby
-# Input bucket, output bucket, mapper and reducer scripts
+# Input bucket, output bucket, mapper script,reducer script
streaming_step = Elasticity::StreamingStep.new('s3n://elasticmapreduce/samples/wordcount/input', 's3n://elasticityoutput/wordcount/output/2012-07-23', 's3n://elasticmapreduce/samples/wordcount/wordSplitter.py', 'aggregate')
+# Optionally, include additional *arguments
+# streaming_step = Elasticity::StreamingStep.new('s3n://elasticmapreduce/samples/wordcount/input', 's3n://elasticityoutput/wordcount/output/2012-07-23', 's3n://elasticmapreduce/samples/wordcount/wordSplitter.py', 'aggregate', '-arg1', 'value1')
+
jobflow.add_step(streaming_step)
```
### Adding a Custom Jar Step
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```ruby
Elasticity.configure do |config|
# If using Hive, it will be configured via the directives here
config.hive_site = 's3://bucket/hive-site.xml'
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end
```
# Amazon EMR Documentation
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# Thanks!
* AWS signing was used from [RightScale's](http://www.rightscale.com/) amazing [right_aws gem](https://github.com/rightscale/right_aws) which works extraordinarily well! If you need access to any AWS service (EC2, S3, etc.), have a look.
* <code>camelize</code> was used from ActiveSupport to assist in converting parmeters to AWS request format.
-* Thanks to the following people who have contributed patches or helpful suggestions: [Ryan Weald](https://github.com/rweald), [Aram Price](https://github.com/aramprice/), [Wouter Broekhof](https://github.com/wouter/), [Menno van der Sman](https://github.com/menno), [Michael Tibben](https://github.com/mtibben) and [Alexander Dean](https://github.com/alexanderdean).
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+* Thanks to [Ryan Weald](https://github.com/rweald) and [Alexander Dean](https://github.com/alexanderdean) for their constant barrage of excellent suggestions :)
# License
```
Copyright 2011-2013 Robert Slifka