This is Hemanth, other co-founder at codelearn. all that code you see is actually command output, not exactly code. You only have to type in small commands at console, for first 5-6 lessons.
We had to take the site down. We have a few issues, we will fix them and inform you when we are up!. Meanwhile pls drop us a mail at [email protected] if you are interested to sign up and we will revert to you when we are up.
Looks like the db lock error was transient (due to large traffic) and now people are able to sign up. So pls try again now, In case you still face the error, please mail us at [email protected], and we would mail you once we have upped our capacity.
We would definitely write a big blog post on it. Right now I can say we had about 200 users on just a EC2 micro instance. We dint expect lot of traffic and users. and I have to run to do damage control.
This is Hemanth , Founder at Codelearn. We had unprecedented spike in our traffic this morning. Thanks very much for trying us out.
frank confessions :
1. We did not expect that codelearn will get posted on hackernews, leave alone make it to the front page!.
2. We wanted a smaller audience to try it out first before releasing to a larger audience at hackernews .
3. We have been working on this only for 2 months now and there are lots of rough edges, some of them are really silly, like making the rails environment production and ideally we should fixed these small things.
4. We are working to fix these problems and will post a message here as soon as we are done.
5. Some of you have pointed that there were Grammatical errors in the copy. We understand that it is important, but we did'nt expect such a large audience.
I would like to reiterate my gratitude for the support .