I am from the Rails-land, but I think what action.io is solving is something that all developers face in general - setting up a local development environment is a pain. Think about it, you cannot easily have multiple Ruby versions in your own local box. Or even having multiple versions of databases in my own local machine is a pain. A lot of people ended up running virtual machines just to have different server configurations. I think action.io does it nicely to solve this problem.
I think action.io is going to help a lot in the case of trying out the latest versions of a framework before migration. Want to try out Rails 3.2 + Ruby 1.9 when you are on Rails 2 + Ruby 1.8? I do not have to mess around my local config. I see action.io allowing me to just create a dev environment instantly for me to try out.
I see huge benefits in the open-source community tool. There are so many different open-source projects out there, but the last thing I want to do is to spend 30min (or more) messing with my local development environment just to try out and play around with a open source project.
> Want to try out Rails 3.2 + Ruby 1.9 when you are on Rails 2 + Ruby 1.8? I do not have to mess around my local config. I see action.io allowing me to just create a dev environment instantly for me to try out.
I think action.io is going to help a lot in the case of trying out the latest versions of a framework before migration. Want to try out Rails 3.2 + Ruby 1.9 when you are on Rails 2 + Ruby 1.8? I do not have to mess around my local config. I see action.io allowing me to just create a dev environment instantly for me to try out.
I see huge benefits in the open-source community tool. There are so many different open-source projects out there, but the last thing I want to do is to spend 30min (or more) messing with my local development environment just to try out and play around with a open source project.
Cool stuff man.