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RSpec 1.1 Is Now A Default Plugin Kit for Heroku Apps

RSpec 1.1 is now a part of the default plugin kit for Heroku apps.

We’ve been fans of RSpec for a while now, and feel that it represents the future of TDD/BDD for the Rails world. If you’re not familiar with RSpec, read up and then give it a try.

You don’t need to install anything to use RSpec in your Heroku app, but you do need to initialize the spec/ and stories/ directories by …

Rails 1.2 is Now Deprecated for New Heroku Apps

Rails 1.2 is now officially deprecated for Heroku apps. Starting January 3 (that’s tomorrow), new features we are developing will not be available on apps still configured to use Rails 1.2. Then, on January 21, we will automatically upgrade any remaining 1.2 apps.

We know it’s only been a month since Rails 2 came out, so we hope this doesn’t come across as overly harsh. By taking this approach we can spend less time backporting, …

View-Only Users: Share Apps Without Edit Access

There are now two access levels for collaborators on Heroku apps:

  • Full edit access, which allows access to everything: editing code, importing or exporting the database, changing the settings, etc.
  • View-only access, which allows the user to view the app only. That is, they can visit the app url (myapp.heroku.com) but not any of the settings pages or the edit url (edit.myapp.heroku.com).

For example, a client who wants to use the app but neither needs …

Gems & Plugins Manager

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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Rails 2 Is Now The Default for Ruby on Rails Apps

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 …

Little Things: Updates to Code Editor and My Apps

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
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