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This looks really great. Very clever!

I'm very excited that it's possible to have normal hosting for shared SaaS, and dedicated deployment for enterprise accounts.

Congrats Mitchell! I've been a raving fan of vagrant 30 seconds after I learnt about it 1.5 years ago. Engine Yard has been fans. We use it and want our customers to use it. Thank …

Three quotes, hopefully not out of useful context, that seem incongruous: "Rubinius is about the join JRuby and MacRuby in the realm of GIL-less Ruby implementations" "I spend my f…

Yay wayne!

Ha, that's possibly true as a percentage of total fees. Hopefully the total fees paid to Engine Yard will always be a rounding error in the context of consulting fees! :) We're inv…

What I meant by that was that we weren't giving away 500 hours on a micro or small instance. We've not found them very useful for Rails/Ruby web apps. It costs us more to give away…

ruby 1.8.7 is required for Rails 3; so Leopard/10.5 users need to install ruby 1.8.7 manually to get started as if they didn't have ruby installed at all, I think.

Another "side-by-side" route is via virtualization. I like http://vagrantup.com/ a lot for this. It allows you to share folders between the host + the guest OS. I'm interested in t…

Ah ok, thanks. I didn't see it mentioned on http://bitnami.org/stack/rubystack and I didn't remember seeing it when I ran the installer last year.

Yes, colors!!! I added a feature request here - https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/8786925

For the first release we wanted a stack of projects that "just worked", rather than the latest release of everything. We have a lot more confidence that a new developer to Rails, i…

RubyStack is great - it installs lots of things you need for running Rails in production on Windows, I think. Like Apache and MySQL server, etc. The 20-panel wizard is sort of off-…

My feature wish: I hope for ANSI colors. Oooh, I want pretty colors enabled by default.