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 […]
Tag: Heroku
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 […]
Heroku with ruby-aaws
The first step of migrating my Rails app to Heroku included only a reduced feature set. I completely removed all parts dealing with the Amazon-API, because ruby-aaws could not be installed as a gem on Heroku. The ruby-aaws gem is build on Ruby >= 1.8.7 while Heroku is running 1.8.6 #fail. I asked Ian Macdonald, […]
Heroku with custom domain
I recently decided to switch my Rails hosting platform. I started Rails using a shared hosting solution from domainFACTORY. That solution did not quite fill my needs so i decided to give Heroku a try. Switching to Heroku is an easy taks, at least if you know what you’re doing… Using Heroku The heroku documentation […]