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Re: Showoff

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Post by bobwaycott »

kaffeinecoma wrote: post #65

Perhaps I missed it in the FAQ, but how do you turn it off? CTRL+C? I understand that you're aiming for simplicity here, but it would be handy to have a menubar icon (or whatever is appropriate for the given platform) to indicate that it's running or not. Or maybe you actually have that, but it's not clear that you do from the website.

A menubar icon (assuming you're meaning Mac OS (or any OS really)) is not something you get from a simple shell script, typically. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Re: Showoff

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Post by kaffeinecoma »

dpritchett wrote: post #67
kaffeinecoma wrote: post #65

Perhaps I missed it in the FAQ, but how do you turn it off? CTRL+C? I understand that you're aiming for simplicity here, but it would be handy to have a menubar icon (or whatever is appropriate for the given platform) to indicate that it's running or not. Or maybe you actually have that, but it's not clear that you do from the website.

Ctrl-C doesn't do it for you?

Presumably, but I haven't tried running it. I'd kind of like to know how to turn off something that's going to do port-forwarding on my machine before starting it up.

Re: Showoff

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Post by Timothee »

geuis wrote: post #44

One note about the setup. When you have multiple ssh keys available, the "pick one" menu looks like this: Choose the public key you'd like to use: [0] id_dsa.pub [1] id_rsa.pub [q] Quit This should start with 1, not 0.

Considering the likely audience, starting with 0 seems adequate. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-based_numbering)

Re: Showoff

#75

Post by pixeloution »

crikli wrote: post #7
larrik wrote: post #3

I love this idea, and the pricing seems spot-on. However, it's not obvious if this is Ruby-only or not? I don't use Ruby, so that's kind of a big deal.

I had the same question as we do mostly PHP; I'm guessing it just uses Ruby as the host software. I installed the Gem and was able to acquire a URL but kept getting an error: An error has occurred: {"stack":"Error: socket hang up\n at Socket. (http.js:1271:45)\n at Socket.emit (events.js:64:17)\n at Array.0 (net.js:825:12)\n at EventEmitter._tickCallback (node.js:126:26)","message":"socket hang up"}

you have to leave the 'show' program running or you get that error - leave your terminal window open, don't control-c out of it once you've started it, and it will work fine. I had the same issue :)

Re: Showoff

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Post by pixeloution »

Travis wrote: post #52
bobwaycott wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, to be fair, and this is personal opinion, Showoff has little to do with whether or not a developer has a strong LAMP background (or .NET, or Haskell, or insert-your-favorite-stack here). And yet it has everything to do with whether or not a developer has a strong LAMP/whatever background. Showoff is not intended to replace your stack--at all. In fact, this product came from a strong server-side background. If y…

Sure, and I didn't mean to appear like I was stating the service was useless. It obviously has use -- it is a cheap shortcut that will reduce a very obvious pain point. An excellent business idea. All I was saying is two-part: 1) the marketing copy on the landing page needs some work. the design needs some work as well. The main message was unclear to me 2) this product isn't for everyone. E.g., I do all my dev work…

If you're on osX there's no "setup a ruby system" you type a one line command and then you can use "show". You might have to use the full path to `show` to get it to execute depending on how it installed. You don't need to know anything about ruby -- I've never touched ruby and I was up and running in less then 60 seconds.

Re: Showoff

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Post by Travis »

pixeloution wrote: post #77
Travis wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, and I didn't mean to appear like I was stating the service was useless. It obviously has use -- it is a cheap shortcut that will reduce a very obvious pain point. An excellent business idea. All I was saying is two-part: 1) the marketing copy on the landing page needs some work. the design needs some work as well. The main message was unclear to me 2) this product isn't for everyone. E.g., I do all my dev work…

If you're on osX there's no "setup a ruby system" you type a one line command and then you can use "show". You might have to use the full path to `show` to get it to execute depending on how it installed. You don't need to know anything about ruby -- I've never touched ruby and I was up and running in less then 60 seconds.

Fair enough. Again, I was just trying to analyze their landing page copy from the point of view of a potential customer. I am not a potential customer.

But for people without any Ruby experience, you don't know that fact ahead of time. All you see is the unknown ruby command. And my impression (as a non-user of ruby) is that it's hard to get going. So a potential customer may see these issues as a hurdle to jump.

Re: Showoff

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Post by pixeloution »

senex wrote: post #64
pixeloution wrote: post #38

I've got MAMP Pro running on my notebook and have a half-dozen "local" urls ( only valid URLS for me ) - is there a way to point this service at those URLS in addition to localhost?

Yup, try using something like `show --host=mysite.local 80`.

tried this and its still connecting to the folder http://localhost points to

Re: Showoff

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Post by tekacs »

senex wrote: post #54
moe wrote: post #48

If you have a public facing server then this can be had for free: ssh -nNT -R 8080:localhost:3000 myserver.com Et voilà, myserver.com:8080 now points to localhost:3000.

Yup, this is basically what showoff is doing. Showoff is nice because it gives you: * HTTPS * Works without access to public-facing server. * Pretty URL * Eventually will support more stuff besides just port-forwarding :)

Ah, that last bit sounds good - look forward to it... :)
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