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- News
- Last Updated: May 30, 2024
- Adam Wiggins
Behold: the Heroku gems/plugins manager.
This has been one of our most requested features to date, and we’re glad to finally get this released. Although you could manually upload plugins previously, this will make the process a lot smoother. (You can still manually manipulate the files in your vendor directory if you prefer.)
To get to the manager, open your vendor directory in the lefthand filenav, and click the link that appears at the top:
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- News
- Last Updated: December 17, 2007
- Adam Wiggins
Rails 2 is now the default for all newly created Heroku apps.
Existing apps will continue to run on 1.2 unless you edit config/environment.rb and change the version number manually. Importing an app will try to guess the Rails version from your environment.rb, but you should double-check after the import to make sure the version is set to what you wanted.
We’ll leave a 1.2 gem available for a while, but we’re going to take …
- News
- Last Updated: December 12, 2007
- Adam Wiggins
Sometimes, it’s the little things. A few niceties deployed recently:
- The code editor UI now has a liquid layout. If you’re a life hacking / GTD type like me, you’ll especially enjoy this in combination with Firefox’s fullscreen mode. (FF for OS X doesn’t have fullscreen, unfortunately; try this instead.)
- Download files from the context menu. You can use this in conjunction with upload to edit in your local editor, load an image into your …
- News
- Last Updated: December 02, 2007
- Adam Wiggins
We’ve been working our tails off over the past few weeks to process all the feedback you guys have been sending (or that we’ve gleaned from the system logs). I think that this photo of the trashcan under Orion’s desk tells the story pretty well:
He bought that case of Rockstar at Costco last week, and consumed it all as part of our mad dash to squash bugs exposed by our sudden surge of users. …
- News
- Last Updated: November 23, 2007
- Adam Wiggins
One of the many benefits of Rails is database independence. Migrations are particularly nice in this regard; and the easy-to-read / Rubyified display of your schema (via rake db:schema:dump) in schema.rb is icing on the cake.
But what about data? For import and export of the actual data, we’re stuck with mysqldump (or pg_dump, if you’re so inclined). Further, these dump formats are not terribly readable, contain lots of information you may or may not …
- News
- Last Updated: November 20, 2007
- James Lindenbaum
What about gems, plugins, and different Rails versions?
We are definitely going to support gems and plugins. We are almost finished with a slick gem and plugin installer you can use for each app. In the meantime, you can install plugins by importing or uploading the files directly into vendor/plugins.
Currently, we only support the latest stable version of Rails. You can use a different version by uploading a frozen vendor/rails, but this may not …
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