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Re: Show HN: Action.io - 0 to Rails in 60 seconds in your browser

#11
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Wow, I'm actually pretty sold. One question though, is there delay when typing in the browser as there normally is when you ssh into a box? That kinda drives me up the walls, and I am an emacs person.

As long as you choose an availability zone that is closest to you when setting up the box, the latency will be minimal. In our experience with using Vim on our boxes, it was not a big problem. Emacs will run just as fine! (We aren't taking sides, I used Emacs a lot when I was doing Scheme.)

Re: Show HN: Action.io - 0 to Rails in 60 seconds in your browser

#13

The technology looks awesome but is this a pain point for people? I like developing on my local machine. Setting up an environment can be a pain but I only have to do it once. After that I forget about it. Also, it worries me to depend on a third party service and my Internet connection to get work done.

The initial version of the platform will be really helpful to beginners, designers, and anyone who's a bit allergic to the command line.

We're working on some great collaboration features and sandboxing that will definitely make it useful for power users. We've also got a solution that we're working on that will allow offline development so you can use native editors and can work offline. Stay tuned.

Re: Show HN: Action.io - 0 to Rails in 60 seconds in your browser

#15
post #4

Looks really good, I hope the rails beta goes smoothly because I would really love to have this for Django. Loved the demo! PS. Why not: on console focus-loss -> file browser auto refresh

Good idea! We are adding that to our to-do list right now!

Re: Show HN: Action.io - 0 to Rails in 60 seconds in your browser

#17
post #5

Wow, I'm actually pretty sold. One question though, is there delay when typing in the browser as there normally is when you ssh into a box? That kinda drives me up the walls, and I am an emacs person.

As long as you choose an availability zone that is closest to you when setting up the box, the latency will be minimal. In our experience with using Vim on our boxes, it was not a big problem. Emacs will run just as fine! (We aren't taking sides, I used Emacs a lot when I was doing Scheme.)

can you migrate boxes between zones?

in case you are travelling...

Re: Show HN: Action.io - 0 to Rails in 60 seconds in your browser

#18

It looks really interesting, but one of the things I like about standard Rails dev work is I can work offline fairly easily. Mostly this a weird 'I have a really long commute' thing, so I will be keeping an eye on this.

Yeah-- we're working on a solution for this, so stay tuned. We're thinking that dev ops drudge work is going to go the way of sys admin (thanks to heroku).

Re: Show HN: Action.io - 0 to Rails in 60 seconds in your browser

#19
This looks technically very interesting (how did you do the terminal emulation, is that an OSS library?).

However I'm almost sure I don't want my Vim and terminals in the browser, there surely will be all sorts of quirks with copy/paste etc.

Can the remote filesystem be mounted so that we can just hack with our local terminals and editors?

Re: Show HN: Action.io - 0 to Rails in 60 seconds in your browser

#20
post #19

This looks technically very interesting (how did you do the terminal emulation, is that an OSS library?). However I'm almost sure I don't want my Vim and terminals in the browser, there surely will be all sorts of quirks with copy/paste etc. Can the remote filesystem be mounted so that we can just hack with our local terminals and editors?

Yes, that's definitely in our pipeline.
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