[aHorseNamedSeve]

I would love to have this stuff in theory but in practice, it hasn't worked for me.

I'm responsible for about 15 different Rails apps. These apps were built over the last 8 years and many have some nasty dependencies that make setting up a dev environment for them a pain. Or running tests a pain or whatever.

So many no one has touched in years but then some bug needs to be addressed in them. Today I have to get the app running again on my machine and there's always some silly timesink that makes the trivial change take too long.

For me ideally, I'd have two docker style images, one production, one test/development that just adds the dev resources to the production image. And then I could jump into any editor and see the changes live online without even installing docker on my machine.

Having a full dev system online means I can make changes from my phone, or really any internet connected device.

At this point, I don't have any interest in using such a system for my day to day work. But for my oddball stuff a well designed one would be great.

[xpe]

> For me ideally, I'd have two docker style images, one production, one test/development that just adds the dev resources to the production image.

Clarification question: do you mean two images in total?

Perhaps you are saying that would cover all 15 Rails apps?