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Comment by duiker101 | Hacker News Reader

seems interesting but I started clicking around, specifically in the Python section and this website seems to have been released too early, the text I am not sure is right(it says I need to use a ruby engine settings for python?) and some links don't work or give 404.

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Yeah, if anyone from nanobox is reading, I found a broken link on the Node.js Engine page:

On page https://engines.nanobox.io/languages/nodejs the link for Create Custom Engine leads to a 404 on https://nanobox.io/engine-dev

We will get that fixed asap. Thanks for letting us know

Later it says you can specify which JS runtime to use with python:

  build:
    runtime: python27
    js_runtime: nodejs-0.12
    app_module: ''

That one's not unreasonable.

It seems I can't also specify a ruby runtime, though. What makes one reasonable and another not?

The mention of ruby in the description is a typo. There isn't a ruby runtime available in the generic python engine, but you're free to fork the engine and add the ruby runtime. All engines are open-source.

The js_runtime is included because of the ubiquity of using tools like bower and gulp to compile assets, which require node.

Thanks for the heads up! Please keep in mind this is an open-source project in the pre-beta phase. Any contributions are welcomed!

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