Thoughts on Heroku

[Rodney Degracia]

Has someone tried out Heroku? http://heroku.com/

I find it interesting that the back-end infrastructure is effectively
a Cloud, but from the Rails Developer point of view the Cloud is
hidden. Any opinions?


Rodney

[Matthew Williams]

I built and deployed http://rubytu.be/ on Heroku. Since it was just a
little site to scratch an itch and I'm not consuming much DB space or
resources, Heroku was perfect for a free host. It couldn't have been
easier to work with and deploy to. And if ever necessary, I can
simply bump up the number of app instances on the fly with little to
no work.

Haven't had any issues and a push to production is a quick "git push
heroku" away (which is pretty awesome).

Grab a free account and play around with it. You could register and
deploy a test app in literally a minute or two.

-MW

[Matt Aimonetti]

FYI the Heroku guys travel the us to meet with ruby groups, I'm sure they'd be glad to come and say hi.

- Matt