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Bundler Status Update

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...

Blasting through Brazil

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...

NoSQL, Heroku, and You

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...

Teambox on Heroku

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...

Default to Bamboo

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 ...

Rails 3 Beta 4 on Heroku

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...

Apigee Add-on for Twitter Public Beta

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 application...

Rails 2.3.6+ Dependency Issues

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 dependencies,...

Ignition!

We can’t be happier to announce that we recently closed a $10 million Series B round of investment led by Ignition Partners. We’re planning to use the money to further expand our platform, turbo-charge partner programs for add-on providers and consultancies, and accelerate our go-to-market programs.

The growth and excitement that we’ve seen at...

MongoHQ Add-on Public Beta

Let’s cut straight to the chase: MongoHQ is launching their add-on to all Heroku users as a public beta.

The details

Over the last six months we have seen persistent demand for MongoDB support on Heroku, so we are incredibly excited that MongoHQ is releasing their highly anticipated add-on into public beta...

Node.js Feedback

The response to yesterday’s Node.js announcement continues to be absolutely amazing.

First and foremost, we’re thrilled to see the community share our excitement about Node.js and its potential on the Heroku platform.

We do, however, also want to be mindful that we’re still in the experimental phase with this technology here. For this reason, we’re going...

Experimental Node.js Support

Today we’re offering experimental support for node.js to a limited set of users. We know there is a lot of demand, and will work with as many users as we can. See below for details.

A natural complement to Ruby

Yesterday we posted about how we think about the platform and make roadmap...