Nitrous.io needs to be replaced

[nikeshashar]

As a precourser
I need to know if I can use any other web IDE to complete the challenges
Because Nitrous is stupid
So that I can be an awesome developer

[nikeshashar]

Something like this might work : https://c9.io/web/site/pricing

[nikeshashar]

And then once decided, I need to update the PreCourse content

[leoallen85]

Whoever takes this needs to install unixoid challenge and make sure it is passable on whatever box we choose and report back to Mr Nik Esh

[oceansize]

c9.io seems good so far, also looking at this: http://www.tutorialspoint.com/ruby_terminal_online.php

[oceansize]

Ok, after a Herculean struggle, I have deemed that c9.io was almost good enough but fell down on question 13, because there were some errant environment variables that were part of the system which broke the validation.

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/ruby_terminal_online.php works, but you have to do the challenge in one sitting (without closing your laptop >_<) and question 7 caused some issues so the only way around it was to create our own .bash_profile and export the TESTING_MAKERS var to it. Obviously this would not occur to a novice.

[leoallen85]

Nikesh is going to speak to nitrous about their educational plans, they have discounts for students

[oceansize]

Any update on this 'Ke$ha?

[nikeshashar]

@roidriscoll they will be charging us for a plan if we want to get anything custom made.