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bshimmin on June 25, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Open source alternative to LaunchRock

If you're going to the trouble of setting up and deploying a Rails app, which you will then inevitably need to customise and style to match your content, how much more effort is it really just to start from scratch..? (Personally I'd probably use Sinatra for something like this and I would expect the front-end prettifying to take longer than the back-end...)

codelitt on June 25, 2015 | [–]

You're right. I think if I were to do it again I would use Sinatra. I built this a while ago. Live and learn.

I actually opened an issue here to discuss: https://github.com/codelitt/launchpage-rails/issues/9

alfonsodev on June 25, 2015 | [–]

Somebody with ruby knowledge could create a Docker image.

codelitt on June 25, 2015 | [–]

Yup. Here are Dockerfiles that should work for both the DB and the Ruby app (in their respective directories):

https://github.com/codelittinc/dockerfiles

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