Heroku - an interesting startup for developers on Rails

The Y Combinator - Heroku incubator startup , which has been in the closed testing stage since last October, also went into open beta testing, as well as more detailed information appeared on how this startup will simplify the process of developing and launching projects using Ruby on Rails ( further RoR).

The Heroku project has two suggestions.The first suggestion is that they provide a development environment for projects on RoR, to work with which you only need a browser, which saves you from having to use third-party software products designed for programming on RoR. Compared to other languages, the restrictions imposed by Ruby and RoR can be more complicated than just installing and configuring. Heroku wants to provide both professionals and beginners the opportunity of seamless development using only a PC with a browser.

The second Heroku proposal, information about which appeared on their website today, will allow developers using Heroku to not only develop their applications with the help of the project, but also to host them and scale. Heroku uses Amazon Web Services to scale the projects hosted by them, and they plan as an additional opportunity to charge a fee for the amount of consumed capacity from paid users using this service. Even if you do not want to develop your application using Heroku, you can simply import your application (and later export it) to experience the full power of automatic scalability provided by this service.

At the moment, anyone who wants to use this service as a platform to develop and / or host their RoR applications can fill out this form and add their name to the waiting list. Heroku co-founder, James Lindenbaum, says they quickly allow users to access the project, and the waiting list is used only to prevent the invasion of new users.

The free version of Heroku hosting will be available to beta testers, and later a paid option will appear that will allow you to: get rid of the Heroku brand, use your domain names, remove bandwidth and processor capacity limitations, as well as provide developers with additional features, such as - code optimization and measurement of application speed.

Despite the fact that Heroku is a participant in the last year’s winter selection Y Combinator, the project was developed in June last year, and has attracted about 2,500 users who have developed around 2,000 applications with it. The three founders of the project have extensive experience in developing software for enterprises, and decided to create Heroku after they saw the growing popularity of RoR in this area, but they also saw many difficulties that arise when developing applications on RoR.

Based on materials: TechCrunch