>Run specs, change database configurations and tail logs like a boss...
That little tidbit made my day!
Show HN: Action.io - 0 to Rails in 60 seconds in your browser
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Re: Show HN: Action.io - 0 to Rails in 60 seconds in your browser
#62Wow, 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.
SSH delays are why I make so many typos in IRC.
It doesn't matter for chat, but for serious coding it would be absolutely infuriating.
Re: Show HN: Action.io - 0 to Rails in 60 seconds in your browser
#63Serious 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 Pytho…
'...web framework that's optimized for programmer happiness...' says it all right there, doesn't it? You know what makes me a happy programmer? Building things, not mucking about with setting up a new dev environment (and filling my machine with crap) every time I hop on a new client project. Make the 'trivial' shit go away so I can focus on the fun/interesting/creative/productive stuff...sounds good to me. I'm very…
Shameless plug here but Vagrant was originally built to address the issue of swapping environments between projects.
I believe Mitchell is going to talk to the action.io folks about possible collaboration.
Re: Show HN: Action.io - 0 to Rails in 60 seconds in your browser
#64I just filled out a survey they emailed me and the thing I indicated as being most important was an online development system to support remote pair programming using tech like Apache Wave or Etherpad.
Re: Show HN: Action.io - 0 to Rails in 60 seconds in your browser
#65Serious 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 Pytho…
'...web framework that's optimized for programmer happiness...' says it all right there, doesn't it? You know what makes me a happy programmer? Building things, not mucking about with setting up a new dev environment (and filling my machine with crap) every time I hop on a new client project. Make the 'trivial' shit go away so I can focus on the fun/interesting/creative/productive stuff...sounds good to me. I'm very…
I have that already with my stack, I'm not sure you understood me.
Re: Show HN: Action.io - 0 to Rails in 60 seconds in your browser
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
Going slightly off point, but I'm not sure what makes Puppet and Chef (two projects written in Ruby - Chef in particular whose configuration language is pure Ruby code) "non-Ruby deployment tools", versus Capistrano and Vlad, which I presume are being referred to as the "Ruby" counterparts to the others' non-Ruby distinction. If you're talking about what they deploy , rather than what they're written in, neither Capi…
This is of course offtopic but I meet lot of people who think Chef/Puppet are not written in Ruby. There is something in wanting to talk about a tool without actually using it.
Most of the people I meet along those lines are sysadmins who "don't code".
Re: Show HN: Action.io - 0 to Rails in 60 seconds in your browser
#67Serious 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 Pytho…
>Why are Rails people so obsessed with accelerating the trivial?
That's easy. That's a false dichotomy. This isn't a deeply held cultural value.
>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.
It is a Ruby cultural value that There's More Than One Way To Do It, and that shiny things are worth chasing.
That said, I laugh in the face of your "Python cleanliness".
Re: Show HN: Action.io - 0 to Rails in 60 seconds in your browser
#68It isn't 60 seconds if I have to wait two weeks for an invite code...
Re: Show HN: Action.io - 0 to Rails in 60 seconds in your browser
#69At the risk of being negative, I'm really sick of Show HN entries that go to a page where you can signup to a 'early access' mailing list but not actually get into the product and use it.
What exactly do you have to show besides the marketing?
Re: Show HN: Action.io - 0 to Rails in 60 seconds in your browser
#70This looks awesome. Congrats. Just wondering, why do you pick browser as the IDE? (as a background, I've been developing iPad IDE called Worqshop).
It's an honest question. How does the IDE perform using the iPad Safari? I thought about doing web-based IDE but found the performance very slow in my testing. Ultimately, it boils down to native vs web apps.
Nevertheless, kudos to you. I know that doing front-end web UI, dealing with AWS, and provisioning the boxes, are not trivial problems.
Edit: Just to preempt, yes, I know my app restricts developers to use iPad :)
Ups... reading the comments below... you will be providing SSH access to the VMs