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...
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...
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...
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 a...
Last month’s featured app was FlightCaster. FlightCaster provides filght delay prediction, letting you know 6 hours in advance if your flight is delayed. Today we’ve posted their success story, along with a great video with their CEO, Jason Freedman.
Jason goes into some great details on how they use Heroku to handle...
This month’s featured app is Best Buy IdeaX, developed by Bust Out Solutions. Best Buy IdeaX is a forum for Best Buy customers to share, rate, and discuss ideas to help make Best Buy better.
“We were very interested in running IdeaX on a cloud computing infrastructure such as Amazon EC2, but the cost...
Modern web apps are increasingly making use of asynchronous, background workers for task processing needs. For many apps, workers are just as, if not even more important than the front end http stack. Ever since we launched DJ, we’ve been overwhelmed with requests from customers wanting access to several DJ workers...
A couple of weeks ago we announced that New Relic RPM Bronze is available free of charge for all Heroku customers through the our add-on catalog New Relic RPM is a application performance management tool that allows you to monitor, troubleshoot, and tune the performance of your Heroku app. One-click integration with...
We’ve secured a two room suite at the Rubyconf event hotel for the Thursday night of the conference. A number of Heroku’s team members including James Lindenbaum, Adam Wiggins, Morten Bagai, Oren Teich, Todd Matthews, Pedro Belo and Blake Mizerany will be hanging out, talking shop and looking to connect with folks interested in...
