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Default to Bamboo

Deployment stacks have been a huge success. With the latest version of Rails 3 requiring the Bamboo stack, we’re excited to make Bamboo the new default.

Effective immediately, all newly created apps will default to the bamboo stack with REE 1.8.7. You can still use the old aspen stack if you’d like by simply specifying `heroku create —stack aspen`. Existing apps stay on the stack they are on unless you explicitly migrate them.

A key …

Rails 3 Beta 4 Is Now Available for Use on Heroku

Heroku now supports Rails 3 beta 4 with Ruby 1.8.7.

As Rails 3 matures and gets closer to production a number of pieces continue to change. The beta 4 update introduced two significant changes to be aware of:

  • Require Ruby 1.8.7 > p249 or Ruby 1.9.2.
  • Require Bundler 0.9.26.

Heroku has updated to Ruby REE 1.8.7-2010.02 which incorporates the necessary patches for Rails 3. We will add support for 1.9.2 when the community releases the …

Apigee Add-on for Twitter Public Beta

If you develop apps for Twitter, this is the add-on for you. The Apigee for Twitter Add-on allows developers to easily access Twitter REST api’s. Through a direct relationship with Twitter, Apigee can offer users of the Add-on vastly increased rate limits automatically. The goal is to ensure that no valid application hits rate limits at all.

If you’re developing applications using the Twitter REST api, check out the add-on today. Using it is often …

Rails 2.3.6+ Dependency Issues

This past Sunday, Rails 2.3.6 was released, and quickly followed by 2.3.7 and 2.3.8. One of the major changes in these new versions is to require a newer version of Rack, specifically 1.1.0, that is incompatible with Rails 2.3.5 and older. Due to the fairly complex ways in which Rubygems resolves dependencies, this can prevent your app from starting – in your local environment as well as when deployed on Heroku. If you’ve been …

Ignition!

We can’t be happier to announce that we recently closed a $10 million Series B round of investment led by Ignition Partners. We’re planning to use the money to further expand our platform, turbo-charge partner programs for add-on providers and consultancies, and accelerate our go-to-market programs.

The growth and excitement that we’ve seen at Heroku, particularly in 2010, has been incredibly energizing for all of us. We talk a lot about numbers – the …

MongoDB on Heroku: Try the MongoHQ Add-on Public Beta

Let’s cut straight to the chase: MongoHQ is launching their add-on to all Heroku users as a public beta.

The details

Over the last six months we have seen persistent demand for MongoDB support on Heroku, so we are incredibly excited that MongoHQ is releasing their highly anticipated add-on into public beta today. The add-on interfaces seamlessly with their successful hosted service, and allows developers to use MongoDB as a first-class-citizen data store in any …

Excited that Node.js is coming to Heroku? So are we!

The response to yesterday’s Node.js announcement continues to be absolutely amazing.

First and foremost, we’re thrilled to see the community share our excitement about Node.js and its potential on the Heroku platform.

We do, however, also want to be mindful that we’re still in the experimental phase with this technology here. For this reason, we’re going to proceed carefully and invite testers in small batches.

So, if you don’t hear from us right away, despair …

Experimental Node.js Support is Now Available

UPDATE: Node.JS is now officially available on Heroku.

Today we’re offering experimental support for node.js to a limited set of users. We know there is a lot of demand, and will work with as many users as we can. See below for details.

A natural complement to Ruby

Yesterday we posted about how we think about the platform and make roadmap decisions. We are always looking for the next set of use cases …

Update and Roadmap: Huge Growth and Future Plans

It’s been a great first quarter for us, and it’s time for a brief update on where we are and where we’re headed.

Growth

Heroku’s growth has continued to be huge. 1,500 new apps were deployed to Heroku last week alone, and that number increases every week. Next week we will cross the 60,000 application mark.

As you can imagine, traffic is growing even more quickly, serving billions of requests per month. In fact, traffic …

Supporting Large Database Transfers with Taps: Part 1

As apps have matured on Heroku, data sets have gotten much larger. Taps is designed to help development by providing a fast and easy way to transfer databases between local environments and Heroku. Today we launched taps 0.3 with a reworked architecture and a new set of features focused on large data sets:

  1. Push/Pull Specific Tables You can now choose which tables to push and pull. Specify a regex and taps will only push or
    2. …

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