Ruby on Rails is the classic example of “there is no such thing as a free lunch”. Although Rails is rather easy to lear and develop, it is a pain in the neck to deploy(you pay for it early or late in the game). Usually apps work wonderfully in the machine where the development is taking place(if you first didn’t have a pain installing rails), but taking it from there to production can cause some serious irreversible phycological damage…lol. So the cool guys from Heroku have developed a two in one solution for up and coming rails developers.
You can develop in their web based IDE and then deploy with their Amazon backed hosting. The cool thing is that since it’s on the Amazon cloud, it will scale very easily without wrecking your finances.
Other hosting providers like Engine Yard and Rails Machine take care of deployment for you, but their cost are slightly higher if you are just starting out.
I have already signed up for the beta(two day waiting time…first time I see a waiting time for a beta request).
The interface doesn’t look that bad, but I am worried about the feel of working on a browser all day. They do have import/export functionality, so that is not a mayor bummer. I’ve been using Coda for a while, thus pretty sure they can’t beat this with a web IDE.
Some Herouku videos.
(Via TechCrunch.)
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