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StackRocket launches beta to help developers build virtualized dev environments

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Yay! 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.

Thanks 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?

How is it different from http://vagrantup.com/ -- Seems to have more features/support for chef/puppet?

It is similar to vagrant, but stackrocket adds more features, such as a hosted component as well as supported software stacks.

Howdy HN users, right now we have Rails, Django and PHP stacks available. We'll be adding more stacks in coming weeks.

It 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?

Right now stacks are set based on preference, compatibility to cloud providers, etc

I'd love to see a Scala/Akka/Play 2.0 stack.

I know it mentioned somewhere that custom stacks were an option but could not find any documentation.

We will enable custom stack soon!

I don't see any information about how to run these stacks locally -- are they something I can run using virtualbox?

Yes, 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 or ping me if you have more questions.

Ahh, thanks you!

Which Clouds/Providers can you push a "stack" to? If I am using the correct terminology...

For now: heroku and dotcloud

what about PHP Frog for the php/mysql stack?

Signed up then got to the getting started and saw it requires MacOS. Doh. Oh well.

We are starting out with MacOS X only, but will add more hosts later. What are you running?

I switch between Mac & PC... having both would be sweet.

Someone's squatting on our name (picplum) -- any way to relinquish?

Looks to me that the name is not taken. Do you want to try again and ping me if you have any problems?

working now, thanks

Any particular reason for Ubuntu 10.04 vs any other os?

We needed a distro to start. It was due to familiarity, but it could be any other distro

Looks awesome, guys! Congratulations on the launch!

Thank you!

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