Heroku

New Relic RPM is an on-demand performance management solution for web applications developed in Ruby. New Relic recently introduced an updated agent. Some of the highlights include support for Sinatra and rack apps, as well as background workers. They also added a great Heroku feature; you can now view your backlog depth history....
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Heroku Apps run on a fully curated stack with everything from the front end caching to the base libraries selected and managed. Today, we’re making available an additional curated stack, with updated libraries and Ruby VMs. You now have the choice of running on the original “Aspen” stack, or using the new...
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In December we asked our users to take a survey on how they are using Heroku. After collecting the responses, we wanted to share some of the results with the rest of our user community. Who’s using Heroku? No surprise, but the majority identify themselves as in the “Software Technology” industry, at 65% of the...
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Bundler may be the future, but after way too many hours of trying to get my app working with Rails 2.3.5, bundler 0.9.x, and Heroku I have decided to throw in the towel and switch back to Heroku’s gem manifest system.I had...
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Gem Bundler is rapidly on its way to becoming the new community standard for managing gem dependencies in Ruby apps. Bundler is the default gem manager for Rails 3, but it will also work seamlessly with any other web framework (or no framework) since it has no dependencies itself. Using it is as simple...
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Deploying to Heroku is pretty easy, but I’ve often found myself needing to do additional tasks after pushing to Heroku’s git repository. For example, if you have to migrate, you have to do that after pushing; and after migrating you ha...
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Getting an error like this when you push to Heroku?electricsheep:herokuapp look$ git push heroku master Received disconnect from 75.101.163.44: 2: Too many authentication failures for git fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedlyIf ...
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Getting the entire ruby stack up and running on Windows is a bit tricky. To help out the process we’ve posted a new Windows setup docs page. This 10 minute screencast walks you through the process. It follows the outstanding instructions put together by Sarah Mei for the Ruby on Rails Workshops
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You get a call from your partner that your app just hit the front page of Digg. You’re away from your computer, and need to scale your app up now! Fire up Nezumi and dial your dynos to 12 to handle the load no problem.Nezumi is a 3rd party iPhone app that allows...
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You, our customers, have given us great feedback that in some places our pricing isn’t aligned with the value we provide, and in other places our pricing is just confusing. We want to be more transparent about how we’re thinking about pricing, so today we’re announcing our pricing philosophy, as well as the first of...
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