Heroku.... Can someone help?

In one of the recent seminars we were told that Heroku just like google app engine gives free cloud to deploy project but only those made in Ruby onn Rails. Also the way this whole seminar was presented, Ruby on Rails really sounded like a simple language. Is it really that simple? I tried to get the basic softwares for it. but the website is pretty confusing. Can someone help me with the set up of ruby on rails and also in deploying a sample hello world code on cloud Heroku?

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Permalink Reply by Kaushik on January 16, 2011 at 7:23pm

Heroku is a pretty popular ROR cloud hosting platform. It got recently acquired by Salesforce which is interesting in terms of how this platform is going to evolve.

In terms of setting it up and deploying a simple app it looks pretty straight foward (though i have not tried Heroku myself)

1. You should first focus on getting a local ROR setup working with a basic App. Go through every step on this url and complete it, you will get a working ROR App.

2. Then pushing your App to Heroku is pretty simple steps you can follow this Heroku QuickStart Guide.

Both these articles are comprehensive and takes you step by step through the process. Try it out and let me know if you face issues.

How simple is ROR ? Well that's a subjective question :-) . It is a considered one of the more simpler Rapid Web Application Development frameworks, and eases out some of the basic aspects of building a web app. However I would always say do not go by subjective inputs from others for something like this, just go for it, and try building some basic apps yourself and you will find out soon enough how comfortable you are with the language/framework. If you do not like it you have lost nothing anyway :-)

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Permalink Reply by Navin Kabra on February 7, 2011 at 2:48pm

Kaushik has already given an answer for Ruby-on-Rails and Heroku.

Let me give a completely different answer.

Another language + framework + hosting platform that is very easy to learn and free is Python + Django + Google App Engine. Python is very easy to learn. Django has excellent documentation and tutorials. And Google App Engine is free. So if you don't have any specific affinity for Ruby-on-Rails, I'd suggest checking this out.