Building A Hosting Platform in Ruby Discussion

Chris Oliver February 13, 2018 1:54am

Just thought I would share this in case anyone is interested how Hatchbox.io works. 👍

Nick McNeany February 15, 2018 11:48am

Really cool video, Chris! Thanks for sharing this!

Also, I like the new commenting system. I just finished mine yesterday. Did you use the Ancestry gem for nesting?

Chris Oliver February 15, 2018 2:47pm

It's actually completely custom. I exported my Disqus comments and imported them into the forum. Then extended the forum to have nesting. There are still a few warts here and there because it's doing double duty for comments and the forum, but I'm going to try to clean those up tomorrow.

Jake Yeaton March 6, 2018 11:15pm

You should do a video about how you accomplished your commenting system and maybe include how to implement a voting system?

Sean M February 21, 2018 5:44pm

Would be great to see more screencasts like this.

Subrat Rout February 23, 2018 10:19pm

Hi Crhis, can I use hatchbox on Hetzner?

Chris Oliver February 23, 2018 10:24pm

Yep, you'll just have to use the Custom VPS option and have your server created on Hetzner first.

William Kennedy February 28, 2018 5:26pm

Cool presentation Chris. I was actually wondering how you managed env variables on hatch. I assume, they are saved in the HatchBox app and a script gets runs to update the .rbenv-vars-file or am I way off the mark?

Chris Oliver February 28, 2018 5:35pm

Yep, exactly.

Dave Woodall. March 13, 2018 3:09pm

Hey Chris,
Any thoughts about posting some how-tos for hatchbox on here? I'm ready to dip my toe into the water and find that immediate jump from heroku to DO / AWS is a bit of a stretch. It has me looking and hoping that hatchBox will be at least a nice transition step. Thanks!