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Commercial Launch

When Adam, Orion, and I started Heroku two years ago, we had no idea how much new technology we would have to build to realize our vision of an instant platform for Ruby that just works. Luckily, we were able to attract an amazing team to work on this problem with us, and the team has really shaped Heroku into the offering it is today. We’re currently by far the fastest and easiest deployment platform for Ruby, and we’ve gotten great feedback on our provisionless hosting architecture. We have over 25,000 apps running on the platform today, and many of…

Config Vars for Deploy-Specific Settings

Say you’re working on a [Rails app](https://www.heroku.com/ruby), and you want to publish your code on Github. Most apps have some deploy-specific private config values – for example, if you’re using the S3 storage back-end for Paperclip, and your S3 keys are saved in config/amazon_keys.yml. You certainly don’t want to push those up to Github – what to do? You could maintain a separate deploy branch, and commit your deploy config only to that. You can then work on the main branch, and rebase the deploy branch whenever you go for a deploy. That’s a bit of extra work you could…

Fork Our Docs

Heroku is now sporting an updated docs layout at docs.heroku.com. These new docs should be much easier to navigate and link to. We built this as a standalone Sinatra app serving Markdown files, partially inspired by Assaf Arkin’s approach to Buildr. This makes it as snappy as staticly rendered pages, while retaining the flexibility of a dynamic app on the backend. The docs app is deployed as a regular app on Heroku (just like this blog). Nothing special-case here: we deploy with git push, just like any other Heroku user. Dogfooding is good for you. The app’s source is on…

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 $ cd mycms $ rake db:bootstrap…

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 pull/push data between environments…

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!

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