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Looks much easier to deploy than Gitlab.

I was actually just thinking about how this clone would make a good blog post pointing out the pain that hovers around many substantial ruby/rails projects versus other tool sets. To be able to download the binary and just run a web app ... amazing. Considering the last time I tried to run Gitlab all kinds of libraries didn't install properly and workers wouldn't come up when they were supposed to.

Rails apps are indeed a pain to install, that is why we made packages https://www.gitlab.com/downloads/ with Omnibus, we don't have a blog post about it but there is a video discussion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTmpKudd-Oo

I just updated gitlab from 6.0 to 6.7 at work this weekend. That it does indeed.

Which reminds me I have to submit patches to their init script.

Rails is OK, but damn is it a bit of a time suck.

Sorry to hear the init script is giving you problems. We look forward to your merge request.

Its nothing big but basically amounts to adjusting how the source logic and defaults fits. The existing setup is a bit wonky and doesn't work in non bash very well.

That and I have been hacking the init script to not always use sudo. I generally prefer that root not use sudo, and where I work that bits enforced heavily. So there is a bit of logic there as well to allow for sudo as root or not.

Hopefully I get to it today but if not its not a big deal really.

Onthe up side there are docker containers you can just deploy with gitlab. Testing went ok but I've not got the chance to use it really.

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