Just tried Heroku... very fun.<p>There are limits to my joy, though. I immediately miss:<p>- emacs. Or at least Textmate. When I press ctrl-a and I get "select all" instead of move-beginning-of-line, I sigh inwardly.<p>- git. Although the "snapshot" feature is awesome and is arguably all that many people would want in a tool like this.<p>- autotest. This is a big one. I'm not much of a Rails wizard, but already I'm hooked on the joys of autotest.<p>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. :)
"<i>Relative to other programming languages, Ruby and the Rails framework can be particularly onerous just to install and configure.</i>"<p>WTF are they talking about?<p><pre><code> sudo port install rb-rubygems
sudo gem install rails
rails myproject
cd myproject
script/server</code></pre>
I'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...
I 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.<p>Still, nice scalability features.
Very 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.<p>I'm on the sign-up list, can't wait to give it a try.