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Re: StackRocket launches beta to help developers build virtualized dev environments

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Post by sayhello » Thu, Dec 15, 2011, 7:33 PM UTC

pilom wrote: post #9

Any particular reason for Ubuntu 10.04 vs any other os?

We needed a distro to start. It was due to familiarity, but it could be any other distro

Re: StackRocket launches beta to help developers build virtualized dev environments

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Post by Hominem » Thu, Dec 15, 2011, 7:33 PM UTC

Signed up then got to the getting started and saw it requires MacOS. Doh. Oh well.

Re: StackRocket launches beta to help developers build virtualized dev environments

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Post by sayhello » Thu, Dec 15, 2011, 7:34 PM UTC

throwaway123213 wrote: post #10

How is it different from http://vagrantup.com/ -- Seems to have more features/support for chef/puppet?

It is similar to vagrant, but stackrocket adds more features, such as a hosted component as well as supported software stacks.

Re: StackRocket launches beta to help developers build virtualized dev environments

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Post by thejash » Thu, Dec 15, 2011, 7:35 PM UTC

Yay! I've had this pain for years now, I'm glad someone is finally addressing it. You need a lot more features (the most important being a decent IDE or editor integration with either emacs or something) before I'll use it, but, I'll definitely keep an eye on the project.

Re: StackRocket launches beta to help developers build virtualized dev environments

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Post by sayhello » Thu, Dec 15, 2011, 7:35 PM UTC

Hominem wrote: post #12

Signed up then got to the getting started and saw it requires MacOS. Doh. Oh well.

We are starting out with MacOS X only, but will add more hosts later. What are you running?

Re: StackRocket launches beta to help developers build virtualized dev environments

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Post by sayhello » Thu, Dec 15, 2011, 7:37 PM UTC

thejash wrote: post #14

Yay! I've had this pain for years now, I'm glad someone is finally addressing it. You need a lot more features (the most important being a decent IDE or editor integration with either emacs or something) before I'll use it, but, I'll definitely keep an eye on the project.

Thanks for the comments. What kind of IDE integration are you thinking about?

The editing portion is easily handled: since your code lives locally, you could be using any editor or IDE of your choosing.

Were you thinking about automated app restarts? What else?

Re: StackRocket launches beta to help developers build virtualized dev environments

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Post by sayhello » Thu, Dec 15, 2011, 7:38 PM UTC

tsmith wrote: post #3

Looks awesome, guys! Congratulations on the launch!

Thank you!

Re: StackRocket launches beta to help developers build virtualized dev environments

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Post by siculars » Thu, Dec 15, 2011, 7:38 PM UTC

Which Clouds/Providers can you push a "stack" to? If I am using the correct terminology...

Re: StackRocket launches beta to help developers build virtualized dev environments

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Post by schrieaj » Thu, Dec 15, 2011, 7:40 PM UTC

keven wrote: post #2

Howdy HN users, right now we have Rails, Django and PHP stacks available. We'll be adding more stacks in coming weeks.

I know it mentioned somewhere that custom stacks were an option but could not find any documentation.

Re: StackRocket launches beta to help developers build virtualized dev environments

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Post by keven » Thu, Dec 15, 2011, 7:41 PM UTC

schrieaj wrote: post #19

keven wrote: post #2

Howdy HN users, right now we have Rails, Django and PHP stacks available. We'll be adding more stacks in coming weeks.

I know it mentioned somewhere that custom stacks were an option but could not find any documentation.

We will enable custom stack soon!