I think the title says it all. I should let the article that got me started with Heroku give you the whole low down about it but following after a blog post by the epic Patrick Rothfuss, I’ll throw those links at the bottom so you won’t get lost into the oblivion of awesomeness they will provide ;). Lucky for you I will keep it brief.
Lately I have really been getting into Ruby deployment on Heroku. Use ruby for anything? It can do it.
- Auto deploy a Ruby application (including Rails, Merb, Sinatra) directly with GIT.
- After verifying your account, you can add a multitude of add-ons (mostly for free with tiered-pricing versions) that provide some amazing functionality. Deploy Hooks, Cron Jobs, Delayed Jobs, Gmail integration or SendGrid email, Exception monitoring, Amazon RDS integration, Custom/Wilcard Domains, command line Database-agnostic export/importing and oh so much more gloriousness.
- Their site is amazing and nothing short of it. The design is enticing, slick with the simplicity and pragmatic quality of the site shines through. Basically I don’t think I have and will find something I don’t love about this solid Debian based ruby deployment platform. Not to mention the fact their revenue model can incorporate giving minimal hosting as a free service. Bravo guys.
But why don’t I let you read more about it in the great articles below…
You’re An I**** For Not Using Heroku
Sending Email With Gmail On Heroku
Filed under: Technical Tagged: | hosting, ruby on rails
Dan Silivestru
Brent Lintner
Pj Lowe
Gord Tanner
Mark J. McArdle
