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With over 80,000 applications on Heroku, we are frequently asked what type of apps people are building. While there’s a wide range, one of the areas I’ve been most excited about is social apps. We have thousands of social applications aro...
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Last month’s Social App Workshop was a huge success. With a sold out crowd of over 150 people filling the basement of our new office, a great lineup of presenters and some fun coding in the afternoon it surpassed our expectations. Social App Wo...
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Bundler is quickly shaping up to meet all it’s promise as THE best way to manage your application dependencies. This afternoon we updated Heroku to the latest version – 1.0.0RC5. RC5 addresses all known outstanding issues including the gi...
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Our own Brazilian Pedro Belo will be making two stops in Brazil the first half of August. August 6th and 7th he’ll be speaking at the Oxente Rails 2010 conference. On August 8th he’ll be joining a local meetup in Sao Paulo to talk Ruby, H...
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Why NoSQL Matters “NoSQL” is a label which encompasses a wave of innovation now happening in the database space. The NoSQL movement has sparked a whirlwind of discussion, debate, and excitement in the technical community. Why is NoSQL gen...
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More and more developers are using Heroku as a SaaS deployment platform. By creating their applications on top of Heroku, they can leverage our architecture and security model to provide SaaS to their customers easily. Today we want to highlight a ne...
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Deployment stacks have been a huge success. For many developers, heroku create —stack bamboo has become the default whenever creating new apps. With the latest version of Rails 2 and Rails 3 both requiring the Bamboo stack, we’re excited ...
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Heroku now supports Rails 3 beta 4 with Ruby 1.8.7. Make sure to push up to bamboo, and you should be all set! As Rails 3 matures and gets closer to production a number of pieces continue to change. The beta 4 update introduced two significant change...
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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...
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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...
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