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by Karunamon 4664 days ago
Indeed, this fits my use case to an absolute tee right now. I'm trying to pick up Rails, and doing anything related under a Windows environment is downright painful, and I'd rather not dualboot just to get into "work mode".

A free VM I can access with any browser? Awesome.
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redthrowaway 4664 days ago
Why not spin up an Ubuntu VM in VMware or virtualbox? I'm not knocking the koding terminal, but "I want a Unix environment without dual-booting" is a fairly standard VMware use case.
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farslan 4664 days ago
Spinning up a Virtualbox, especially on a machine with low resources unfortunately is a kill. Besides the Terminal, Koding has features like private Groups, Collaboration, Online editor and so on. That means once you create and begin to use a VM, you can access it from everywhere without any hassle with just one login!
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Karunamon 4664 days ago
Pretty much took the first few words out of my mouth, there. The fact that this is accessible from any web browser I think is the killer feature. I can't install putty or access ssh on every machine I use.

Basically, this is just plain awesome. Cheers!

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farslan 4664 days ago
Koding Dev here. There is also a Rails app that let's you create Rails instances very easily! Look at the screenshots here: https://github.com/fatih/RailsDashboard.kdapp

This is already in our Apps section. Just install and use it. Let me know if you like it or something goes wrong :)

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