Comments on: Heroku: Web based Rails Hosting

By: matthewcarriere

matthewcarriere — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:57:01 +0000

Heroku is awesome! I am working on a series of Ruby on Rails with Heroku videos on my blog: http://matthewcarriere.com/2008/6/30/learning-rails-with-heroku-episode-1

Feel free to ping me for an invite as well.

By: thampou

thampou — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:17:17 +0000

i’d love one also :D (at thampou at gmail dot com)

By: juliancox

juliancox — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:44:12 +0000

@unisoniq – done

By: unisoniq

unisoniq — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:36:35 +0000

can anyone send me an invite to unisoniq [a] gmail ?

thx

By: juliancox

juliancox — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:05:27 +0000

I’ve been using Herkou for some time now and I think its an excellent platform. Hats off to Adam et al for a great service – I really hope it succeeds as a business.

For a beta I the platform is amazingly stable and the Heroku team are incredibly responsive to emails on issues of significance.
On small scale projects and especially for Rails newbies Heroku has several significant attractions over standard rails development…
* Zero Setup. You really can get straight into coding with Heroku.
* You don’t need to remember to restart for config changes – it does it automatically (I love that)
* You don’t need to remember to migrate (you get a nice big message about outstanding migrations)
* I can get to my app from any machine – saves having to carry the laptop home.
* This maybe fraught with risk but you can have more than one person working on the app without any special server set up.
* I don’t have to leave the browser at all none of this browser/textmate/MySQL Query Browser switching.
* Their snapshot facility is really cool too.

For a small scale app or prototyping I really think Heroku beats doing it locally. Navigating larger apps could soon get difficult to with the current editor but I’m sure they’re working on this. You’d be surprised how much essential functionality is already there – try command ] for example.

No ideas of cost of full fledged apps but they are planning on keeping a free option. The main limitation is no outgoing connections (including email).

By: Michael Hendrickx

Michael Hendrickx — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:37:50 +0000

Would be a pretty nice thing if they could indeed up the editor a bit.

By: Tr0y

Tr0y — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:14:38 +0000

This looks pretty cool, I’d like to see how stable it is.

Is there anyone currently using this who can speak to its stability?

Also, what will it cost to keep a rails app running compared to rails machine?