Installation in the Cloud

[tamouse]

First off, this is an awesome collection of guides!! Thank you so much for putting it together.

The installation guide is really great. This seems to be a continuous problem in getting people up and running. Getting folks up in the cloud is changing so quickly.

Nitrous.io is now pushing their "pro" version really strongly. The last time I tried to set up a free account there, it took several days before the box was ready. Obviously this won't work in a workshop setting, or even just an evening. Cloud9 (Hartl's new choice) is only slightly better; while their public free spaces come up in under a minute, the private free space takes at least an hour, if not longer. Koding.com is harder than the others, more like installing on your own linux box, but at least it's still reasonable in set up times.

I'm not really sure there's ever going to be an answer that will be definitive, this is the Internet after all! I'm just leaving this as an issue rather than offering an update because I just don't know what to say about this in a guide. I have to constantly adjust when I help folks at monthly meetups.

Again, super thanks for these guides. I hope I'll be able to put on a RailsGirls event locally soon.