There comes a time one has to create PDFs for a Rails application. Searching the web will most likely bring you to libraries like PDF Kit and Wicket PDF that use wkhtmltopdf as a driver. If your app is hosted on Heroku you wonder weather wkhtmltopdf is available so that you can use one of […]
Tag: Heroku
DZone API and iPhone app
As I already mentioned, I am currently getting my hands dirty with Objective-C and iPhone application development. The biggest problem with getting started was that I had no idea what application I could write for that device that could become somewhat usable. As I am a passionate tech reader, I consume a lot of articles […]
Using the Redis addon on Heroku
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 […]
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 […]