Trying out heroku.com, RoR hosting and through the web app creation.
Monday, May 26, 2008
I got an invite to the Heroku beta, and it looks pretty neat.
Heroku.com take elastic RoR hosting and moves it one step forward, with the ability to create and manage your app using a through-the-web interface. You can create an app from scratch, or import an existing one. The team there has also created a heroku gem that allows you to clone an app you created on their site down to a local git repository and work on it locally, then push your updates back to the heroku site.
If you have an existing app, you just tar it up and upload it to heroku, and their app management console will un-tar it into your application folder. They also have a plugin that allows you to create a yaml file of your local database contents and upload it to your heroku app as well.
Applications can be made public, or you can restrict access to yourself and any collaborators you add.
Find out more at www.heroku.com Definitely worth a look.
Until next time,
Tom Porter