This is a bit hacky, but you can set up pingdom (or new relic) to ping your (toy/side project) apps every few minutes. This essentially ensures that you never h

This is a bit hacky, but you can set up pingdom (or new relic) to ping your (toy/side project) apps every few minutes. This essentially ensures that you never have to wait for heroku's spin up time. cf. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5480337/easy-way-to-prevent-heroku-idling http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5480337/easy-way-to-preve...