I am always playing around with new addons offered by Heroku. My latest discovery was the Redis addon that is provided by Redistogo. The addon is probably in private beta (docs are still on beta), but since they put up a link to it on their site, I managed to install it to my personal […]
Category: Heroku
Mongo Ruby Driver, Mongoid and MongoMapper
============================================================= ============================================================= Update Aug. 2010 On Whyday, I created a live demo of the examples, that is running on Heroku. =========================================================== =========================================================== I am constantly looking around for different storage mechanisms on Heroku that can be used for caching 3rd party data. A recent update of their platform offered an MongoDB addon to access the […]
ASIN vs ruby-aaws
I recently wrote about using ruby-aaws on Heroku. I used it for creating a virtual bookshelf on my website, so anybody interested in what I read can have a look at the ISBN, price, description and some reviews (in german). Since this is a trivial scenario it covers only a fragment of features that ruby-aaws […]
Migrating to Rails 3 for Heroku Bamboo
Recently there were some interesting updates to the Heroku infrastructure, giving the opportunity to migrate my personal Rails 2 website to Rails 3. Having an app with only a single model for caching data, there is no worry about database migration. A nice opportunity for starting out new: rvm use 1.9.1 gem install rails —pre […]
Simple DB caching for Heroku
Heroku is a great platform. I like the style of the page, I appreciate the documentation and you can start up for free! One thing that I miss a lot is decent caching. The readonly filesystem eats up a lot of flexibility. I played around with HTTP caching and Herokus Varnish works really well. The […]