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

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Post by iamclovin » Wed, Jun 20, 2012, 5:35 PM UTC

raarky wrote: post #17

raingrove wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Yup! Also on our todo list.

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

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Post by iamclovin » Wed, Jun 20, 2012, 5:36 PM UTC

username3 wrote: post #9

email with a plus sign: "There was an error creating your invite, try again."

Fixed, thanks!

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

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Post by Argorak » Wed, Jun 20, 2012, 5:38 PM UTC

Hm. This is one of the rare times where a product actually does too much for me. If it gave me the ability to build and manage virtual envs for testing and development with ssh access (and maybe the ability to download them in say... vagrant box format) and nothing more, I would be sold immediately.

With the glossy IDE finish: not my thing :/.

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

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Post by wakaflaka » Wed, Jun 20, 2012, 5:39 PM UTC

This could be a really awesome pair programming tool if you could have real time collaboration ala Google Docs.

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

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Post by iamclovin » Wed, Jun 20, 2012, 5:43 PM UTC

Argorak wrote: post #23

Hm. This is one of the rare times where a product actually does too much for me. If it gave me the ability to build and manage virtual envs for testing and development with ssh access (and maybe the ability to download them in say... vagrant box format) and nothing more, I would be sold immediately. With the glossy IDE finish: not my thing :/.

You can completely do away with the IDE if you want and Vagrant integration is in our todo list for sure.

P.S. Here's what Mitch (creator of Vagrant) has to say about action.io: https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/215491864080547840

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

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Post by weslly » Wed, Jun 20, 2012, 5:43 PM UTC

It looks nice, btw I thought it was something from http://iphone.appstorm.net/, the icon/favicon is almost the same.

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

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Post by xutopia » Wed, Jun 20, 2012, 5:43 PM UTC

This is how Heroku got started and they quickly figured out that the editor in the browser was an issue. No one liked it.

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

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Post by drharris » Wed, Jun 20, 2012, 5:45 PM UTC

Wow, I'm very impressed. There is definitely a killer app for this, and that is Windows rails development. While it's better than it used to be, it's still far from ideal, and time consuming to set up. Love the idea of being able to use a consistent environment across multiple platforms. Great job; looking forward to playing with this!

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

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Post by heretohelp » Wed, Jun 20, 2012, 5:45 PM UTC

Serious question from Python-land, that I think may illuminate the difference in mindset.

Why are Rails people so obsessed with accelerating the trivial?

I mean, the other end of the spectrum is to be focused purely on the obscure and utterly advanced, like category theorists trying to harness Haskell.

I've always felt the strength of the Python community is that it was able to let the idioms and cleanliness of Python stand for themselves while they advance of the state of the art for the work-a-day programmer. (The middle of the proverbial road)

Meanwhile, we've got Rails (and I mean this separately of Ruby. The non-Rails Ruby community is much more like the rest of us) at one end of the spectrum, and Haskell/Clean/etc. at the other.

What the hell?

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

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Post by Argorak » Wed, Jun 20, 2012, 5:46 PM UTC

iamclovin wrote: post #25

Argorak wrote: post #23

Hm. This is one of the rare times where a product actually does too much for me. If it gave me the ability to build and manage virtual envs for testing and development with ssh access (and maybe the ability to download them in say... vagrant box format) and nothing more, I would be sold immediately. With the glossy IDE finish: not my thing :/.

You can completely do away with the IDE if you want and Vagrant integration is in our todo list for sure. P.S. Here's what Mitch (creator of Vagrant) has to say about action.io: https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/215491864080547840

Saw the initial tweet, but I did not see the discussion. Vagrant integration would be great, as I am traveling frequently and need my offline dev environment.

Thanks for the info!