Heroku.com - An impressive online Ruby on Rails Platform. 5

Posted by Daniel Wanja Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:12:19 GMT

You’ve have to try it to believe it. It’s awesome that you can create a Rails application and deploy it all online. Nothing to install, it’s all there. I think it’s an awesome addition to the Rails world. It may not replace your development environment, but for deployment it’s pretty flexible and is based on Amazon EC2.

From their website the feature description is as follows:

  • Instant Deployment
  • Create and Edit Online
  • Integrated Stack
  • Elastic Performance
  • Share and Collaborate
  • Import & Export
  • Full Ruby Environment
  • Gems & Plugins
  • Rails Console
  • Generate Code
  • Painless Migrations
  • Rake Console

But you gotta see this to believe it. I made a quick screencast, so if you are not scared of a thick (swiss) french accent, have a look: (click image to open screencast in separate browser):

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I can foresee, at least hope, that they will quickly add support for subversion and for Capistrano based deployment, hence becoming the ultimate deployment platform for Rails in addition to the powerful and flexible environment they already provide.

I signed up and received my invite three days later. If you can’t wait send me an email daniel[at]onrails.org, and I sign you up, that will allow to skip the wait.

Enjoy, Daniel.

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  1. Alicia Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:35:59 GMT

    I shall try this. Just because you so highly recommend it! The new features seem to be very useful.

  2. Dallas Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:10:33 GMT

    Excellent find Daniel.

    Just what was required – Rails and EC2 are made for each other but EC2 is technically a bit of a challenge. It needed someone to make it easy for the rest of us.

  3. Geoffrey Grosenbach Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:14:33 GMT

    I interviewed the founders of Heroku on the Rails Podcast. They’re a smart bunch and have some great ideas.

  4. Geoffrey Grosenbach Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:15:01 GMT

    Correct link is here:

    http://podcast.rubyonrails.org/programs/1/episodes/heroku

  5. Daniel Wanja Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:31:46 GMT

    Hi Geoffrey. Thanks for the link. I made this screencast after listening to your Screencast on the mac screen cast which provides a lots of useful tips. I still have ton’s to learn but it mostly made me realize how hard this is and how valuable your screencast are. Same for Ryan Bates Railscasts

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