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StackRocket launches beta to help developers build virtualized dev environments
- keven 15y agoHowdy HN users, right now we have Rails, Django and PHP stacks available. We'll be adding more stacks in coming weeks.
- michaelbuckbee 15y agoIt wasn't clear to me from the video, are those stacks preset or can I specify Rails 2.8, MySQL 5.2, and so on?
- keven 15y agoRight now stacks are set based on preference, compatibility to cloud providers, etc
- dantheman 15y agoI'd love to see a Scala/Akka/Play 2.0 stack.
- schrieaj 15y agoI know it mentioned somewhere that custom stacks were an option but could not find any documentation.
- keven 15y agoWe will enable custom stack soon!
- tsmith 15y agoLooks awesome, guys! Congratulations on the launch!
- sayhello 15y agoThank you!
- goo 15y agoI don't see any information about how to run these stacks locally -- are they something I can run using virtualbox?
- keven 15y agoYes, once you installed virtualbox and our command line tool, stkr, a virtual machine will be downloaded automatically and a stack of your choice will be set up locally. Visit getting started page https://www.stackrocket.com/docs/getting_started https://www.stackrocket.com/docs/getting_started or ping me if you have more questions.
- goo 15y agoAhh, thanks you!
- pilom 15y agoAny particular reason for Ubuntu 10.04 vs any other os?
- sayhello 15y agoWe needed a distro to start. It was due to familiarity, but it could be any other distro
- throwaway123213 15y agoHow is it different from http://vagrantup.com/ http://vagrantup.com/ -- Seems to have more features/support for chef/puppet?
- sayhello 15y agoIt is similar to vagrant, but stackrocket adds more features, such as a hosted component as well as supported software stacks.
- Hominem 15y agoSigned up then got to the getting started and saw it requires MacOS. Doh. Oh well.
- sayhello 15y agoWe are starting out with MacOS X only, but will add more hosts later. What are you running?
- fionabunny 15y agoI switch between Mac & PC... having both would be sweet.
- thejash 15y agoYay! 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.
- sayhello 15y agoThanks 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?
- siculars 15y agoWhich Clouds/Providers can you push a "stack" to? If I am using the correct terminology...
- PStamatiou 15y agoSomeone's squatting on our name (picplum) -- any way to relinquish?
- keven 15y agoLooks to me that the name is not taken. Do you want to try again and ping me if you have any problems?
- PStamatiou 15y agoworking now, thanks