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Morten Bagai

Heroku Staff

Railslab Interview

Railslab is a great site by our friends over at New Relic that contains a wealth of knowledge on Rails scaling and application performance.

A couple of weeks ago they asked Ryan and Adam to stop by for a discussion of the vision behind Heroku, and the philosophy that drives the design and buildout of our scalable, provisionless hosting platform .

The interview is now available for your viewing pleasure in three parts. In the first part Adam goes into detail about the core vision behind the concept of instant deployment, and how…

Add-on: Wildcard Domains

Since we returned from a fun and successful Railsconf in Vegas, we have been in full swing completing the rollout of our paid services. The response has been enormous so far, and paid services are now available to all users.

If you’ve checked out the pricing page , you’ve undoubtedly noticed our line-up of a la carte add-ons . We’re really excited about add-ons becoming a key part of our platform, allowing us to seamlessly deliver popular application services and components with the built-in scalability and ease of use you’ve come to expect from Heroku.

We’ve had…

New Heroku Screencast by Remi

It’s been a bit of a blur here at Heroku HQ in the past couple of weeks. However, amidst all the launch activity we did notice a screencast so sweet we thought we’d share it with you. It really covers the whole platform exceptionally well, and we particularly dig how it manages to show off both Rails and Rack app deployment.

Big ups to Remi for putting this together, and way to shame us for not getting any official screencasts together for the new and improved Heroku. 🙂

Radiant CMS in 5 Minutes Or Less

Radiant is an excellent Rails-based Content Management System (CMS). It was created by John W. Long and Sean Cribbs, and has been around for a couple of years, growing steadily in popularity. With the recent addition of taps and gem manifests , it’s super-easy to get this lightweight CMS up and running on Heroku.

Start by installing the latest radiant gem on your local box:

$ sudo gem install radiant

Now use the radiant command-line tool to set up your Radiant CMS locally. We’ll use SQLite as the local database:

$ radiant –database sqlite mycms
$…

Push and Pull Databases To and From Heroku

Warning: This feature is deprecated; please use pg:pull instead.

A frequent question people ask us is “how do I transfer my database between my local workstation and my Heroku app?”

This is an important question for several reasons. First, you always own your data on Heroku, and we want you to be able to get to it quickly and easily at any time. Also – as you may have noticed from previous posts – we’re obsessive about workflow. Whether you’re debugging an issue with production data or setting up a staging environment, being able to quickly…

Rails 2.3

The Rails 2.3.2 gem is now installed and available for use on Heroku. To learn more about what’s new and improved, check the official Rails blog post .

Enjoy!

Gem Manifests

Gem installation and management has always been pain when the time comes to deploy an app. Rails 2.1 made good progress in this area with gem dependency specifications, allowing you to vendor required gems with a of set rake commands. That’s the method we’ve been recommending for Heroku apps until now, but it does leave important problems unsolved.

First, a substantial limitation of the vendoring method is that it only works with pure Ruby gems. Many apps depend on gems with native extensions that need to be compiled on the deployment target. It’s no good compiling a…

Build a News Site With Rubyflow

Ruby journalist extraordinaire, Peter Cooper, is a busy man. Chances are you’re already following his work to bring you the latest Ruby news on sites such as Ruby Inside and RubyFlow . Late last year he even added a tremendously useful site oriented towards iPhone and iPod Touch development called Mobile Orchard. Somewhere along the line he was also generous enough to leak the source code for Rubyflow, and now a version of that is available through Sutto’s Github repository .That’s great news for anyone looking to start their own news site, especially since it’s a breeze to get…

Heroku + Suspenders

Making Rails readily accessible to developers of all stripes is a big part of the vision behind the Heroku platform, and we try to be supportive of any initiatives that make teaching and learning Rails easier.

A couple of months ago, thoughtbot released suspenders – a freely available Rails template app, loaded with commonly used plugins, sensible configuration options and helpful rake tasks. Simple as it may seem, having a solid default app template is a really important step in eliminating the barriers that prevent developers from jumping directly from concept to coding with Rails. We think thoughtbot…

Heroku at Rubyconf

Rubyconf is upon us, and most of engineering team will be present in Orlando this week.

If you’re attending, or maybe just nearby, this would be a great opportunity to say hi and/or ask those burning questions you’ve got about Heroku. Whether you’re wondering if Heroku will be a good fit for your needs, or have questions about a currently hosted app, we’re happy to make time for you. Just email us here and we’ll find a time/place to talk.

Last but not least, don’t forget to catch Adam and Blake presenting on Lighweight Web Services with…

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