Hey, all..

One of the things that I find SUPER necessary when developing an app is to be able to grab data from somewhere else and quickly and easily work on it from my machine.

For instance, when I get a bug report that smells funny, the first thing i sometimes do is run a script that grabs the production data, and populates my local database with that data.

i am fleshing out a project that i would really like to use Teapot (REST) for. i could then write several front ends in whatever framework/language.

I was thinking about using Voyager, but the problem is, the data is VERY relational (see below, if interested).. objects are linked to each other fairly tightly. I don���t know if this would be the way to handle the data, as there would be lots of duplication using mongodb as a datastore.

Of course, my first thought is Gemstones, but I don���t know how to grab the production data and pull it into my local development system.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this? 

For those curious about the data design, i am setting up a REST server for an collaborative internet radio application���

- there would be a global pool of stations (just streaming urls with metadata, really)

- each user can select from or contribute to the global pool

- users can add tags to stations (or search through the global stations based on tags)

- users can attach comments to stations

not complex or intimidating at all, and super easy to model in smalltalk, but not sure about how to store data so that I can quickly grab production data and troubleshoot if if necessary.

Thanks!