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Heroku Lifts Ruby on Rails Development into the Cloud (YC Winter 08)
- immad 19y agokicks ass. Congrats guys!
- hollywoodcole 19y agoAwesome! Already in line for the beta testing.
- wallflower 19y agoAlready got a response. I'm in! Though I don't know what to do as I don't know any Ruby. Time to learn... "Hello, Heroku!" here I come!
- hollywoodcole 19y agoJust got my invite and holy this is so much better than Ubuntu + vi + screen. How do you Mac+Textmate guys like it?
- wallflower 19y agoI'm excited to beta test. Who needs a MacBook Air to create your own interesting RoR project? This will let me hack Ruby on an ancient laptop. For bonus points, eventually, perhaps they could offer for-fee code reviews...
- jey 19y agoI think an IDE implemented in JavaScript would be rather inefficient, but that doesn't matter with modern hardware.
- boucher 19y agoI know that Heroku's IDE is plenty efficient, even on older hardware. People have a hugely mistaken impression of what can and cannot be done in JavaScript.
- tlrobinson 19y agoYeah! Even 3D! http://tlrobinson.net/misc/3d.html http://tlrobinson.net/misc/3d.html
- brianmckenzie 19y agoI like this. That is all.
- Readmore 19y agoVery nice. I had this same exact idea a couple months back with the focus of tying it into a thin client computer. You buy the hardware and you instantly have access to all of these browser based applications that are hosted and built through a web service. I'm on the sign-up list, can't wait to give it a try.
- nextmoveone 19y agoThis is freaking awesome! Signed up for beta!
- webwright 19y agoBig congrats!
- jraines 19y agoDid you guys get a confirmation email when you signed up? When I hit "sign-up" all that happened was an instant AJAX-y refresh of the page.
- wallflower 19y agoNo confirmation. But less than a half-hour later got the invitation email...
- dottertrotter 19y agoAnyone got an invite they can send me?
- endlessvoid94 19y agoIt must be nice to have the problem of needing to prevent an onslaught of new users. That's when you know your idea is pretty good.
- jey 19y ago"Relative to other programming languages, Ruby and the Rails framework can be particularly onerous just to install and configure." WTF are they talking about? sudo port install rb-rubygems sudo gem install rails rails myproject cd myproject script/server
- bayareaguy 19y agoYou know, stuff like: powerbook.local 102> sudo port install rubygems Password: Error: Port rubygems not found
- jey 19y agoFixed. The port was actually "rb-rubygems", not "rubygems". I'm no rails fanboy by far, but it's unfair to claim that rails is a hard environment to use when in reality rails goes out of its way to make RoR development dead simple. </nitpick>
- bayareaguy 19y agoI'm no ruby developer so I decided to push your example a little further just to see how trivial it really is. Unfortunately the next instruction you offer didn't work either: powerbook.local 105> sudo gem install rails Password: Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::GemNotFoundException) Could not find rails (> 0) in any repository A little googling reveals that at least on OSX, you need to do this: powerbook.local 106> sudo gem update --system Password: Updating RubyGems... and after that, then you can powerbook.local 107> sudo gem install rails [...] powerbook.local 108> rails myproject powerbook.local 109> cd myproject [...] But then the next command you wrote blows up again: powerbook.local 110> ./script/server Cannot find gem for Rails =1.2.6.0: Install the missing gem with 'gem install -v=1.2.6 rails', or change environment.rb to define RAILS_GEM_VERSION with your desired version.
- jules 19y agoThat's strange given that DHH himself uses OS X. I've had no problems at all installing Rails on Linux and Windows.
- hollywoodcole 19y agoAnyone have and idea what this will cost when out of beta?
- rapind 19y agoVery very very cool
- mechanical_fish 19y agoJust tried Heroku... very fun. There are limits to my joy, though. I immediately miss: - emacs. Or at least Textmate. When I press ctrl-a and I get "select all" instead of move-beginning-of-line, I sigh inwardly. - git. Although the "snapshot" feature is awesome and is arguably all that many people would want in a tool like this. - autotest. This is a big one. I'm not much of a Rails wizard, but already I'm hooked on the joys of autotest. Rather than ask for any of these potentially obscure features, however, let me ask this: how about a secure API that lets me (a) run rake tasks remotely and receive their output in return; and (b) upload/download any of my source files? Then I believe you can leave autotest, emacs, and perhaps even git support as exercises for the student. :)
- kirubakaran 19y agoWow! I wish someone did the same for Pylons.
- simianstyle 19y agoI would more likely import an existing rails project onto heroku rather than code the entire thing through the web. I have my own preferences when it comes to things like IDE's. Still, nice scalability features.
- gibsonf1 19y agoWow - you can now code on your Iphone - fingers permitting! A most impressive concept - congratulations!