Category: Heroku

Using the Redis addon on Heroku

I am always “playing around with new addons”:http://blog.nofail.de/2010/07/mongo-ruby-driver-mongoid-and-mongomapper/ offered by Heroku. My latest discovery was the “Redis addon”:http://addons.heroku.com/redistogo that is provided by “Redistogo”:http://redistogo.com/. The addon is probably in private beta (“docs”:http://docs-beta.heroku.com/redistogo are still on beta), but since they put up a link to it on their site, I managed to install it to my “personal […]

Mongo Ruby Driver, Mongoid and MongoMapper

=================================================================== =================================================================== Update Aug. 2010 On “Whyday”:http://whyday.org, I created a live demo of the examples, “that is running on Heroku”:http://mongodb-examples.heroku.com/. =================================================================== =================================================================== 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 […]

Migrating to Rails 3 for Heroku Bamboo

Recently there were some interesting “updates to the Heroku infrastructure”:http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2010/3/5/public_beta_deployment_stacks/, giving the opportunity to migrate “my personal Rails 2 website”:http://www.phoet.de/ to “Rails 3 (beta)”:http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2010/2/5/rails-3-0-beta-release/. Having an app with only a single model “for caching data”:http://blog.nofail.de/2010/02/simple-db-caching-for-heroku/, there is no worry about database migration. A nice opportunity for starting out new: rvm use 1.9.1 gem install rails […]