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Ask HN: Why does nearly every Ruby on rails tutorial/book ask to use Heroku?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41700338

by arromatic • 2 years ago

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padseeker2• 2 years ago

Heroku is the OG of affordable rails hosting. If the tutorial is older than 3-4 years ago then it was published when Heroku was free, which it no longer is.

There are lots of other affordable, but probably not free, options now;

https://railway.app/ https://fly.io/ https://www.hetzner.com/ https://www.digitalocean.com/ https://render.com/

arromatic2• 2 years ago

Any option for local hosting for development purpose ?

Also what happened to heroku free ?

padseeker2• 2 years ago

Salesforce bought it and there were too many freeloaders.

Options of "local hosting for development purposes"? Do you mean running "rails s" locally on your machine?

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