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keven
Howdy HN users, right now we have Rails, Django and PHP stacks available. We'll be adding more stacks in coming weeks.
michaelbuckbee
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?
keven
Right now stacks are set based on preference, compatibility to cloud providers, etc
dantheman
I'd love to see a Scala/Akka/Play 2.0 stack.
schrieaj
I know it mentioned somewhere that custom stacks were an option but could not find any documentation.
keven
We will enable custom stack soon!
tsmith
Looks awesome, guys! Congratulations on the launch!
goo
I don't see any information about how to run these stacks locally -- are they something I can run using virtualbox?
keven
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.

goo
Ahh, thanks you!
pilom
Any particular reason for Ubuntu 10.04 vs any other os?
sayhello
We needed a distro to start. It was due to familiarity, but it could be any other distro
throwaway123213
How is it different from http://vagrantup.com/ -- Seems to have more features/support for chef/puppet?
sayhello
It is similar to vagrant, but stackrocket adds more features, such as a hosted component as well as supported software stacks.
Hominem
Signed up then got to the getting started and saw it requires MacOS. Doh. Oh well.
sayhello
We are starting out with MacOS X only, but will add more hosts later. What are you running?
fionabunny
I switch between Mac & PC... having both would be sweet.
thejash
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.
sayhello
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?

siculars
Which Clouds/Providers can you push a "stack" to? If I am using the correct terminology...
sayhello
For now: heroku and dotcloud
veb
what about PHP Frog for the php/mysql stack?
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PStamatiou
Someone's squatting on our name (picplum) -- any way to relinquish?
keven
Looks to me that the name is not taken. Do you want to try again and ping me if you have any problems?