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Ask HN: Why does nearly every Ruby on rails tutorial/book ask to use Heroku?

• padseeker 2y ago
  Heroku is the OG of affordable rails hosting. If the tutorial is older than 3-4 years ago then it was published when Heroku was free, which it no longer is. There are lots of other affordable, but probably not free, options now; https://railway.app/ https://railway.app/ https://fly.io/ https://fly.io/ https://www.hetzner.com/ https://www.hetzner.com/ https://www.digitalocean.com/ https://www.digitalocean.com/ https://render.com/ https://render.com/
  • arromatic 2y ago
    Any option for local hosting for development purpose ? Also what happened to heroku free ?
    • padseeker 2y ago
      Salesforce bought it and there were too many freeloaders. Options of "local hosting for development purposes"? Do you mean running "rails s" locally on your machine?
      • arromatic 2y ago
        Yeah, on my machine .
        • Alifatisk 2y ago
          https://guides.rubyonrails.org/command_line.html#bin-rails-server https://guides.rubyonrails.org/command_line.html#bin-rails-s...