Easy deployment to Heroku in a few simple steps

Finally gave Heroku a try this evening.

I've first heard of them many months ago, but never really tried to use it, probably because I wasn't sure how it worked, and it looks expensive.

After countless advice from friends and mentors to consider putting my next rails app on the platform, I decided to try and deploy an opensource project I'm starting to work on as a testbed.

I was pleasantly surprised.

All I needed was to install the heroku gem, create an account, add a remote git repository to the heroku git repository, and finally do a push, and I'm done.

I managed to get http://moneybag.heroku.com up and running all within 3 minutes.

Exploring the pages somemore, I noticed that they have added more features in the form of 'addons' that would help improve your instance. Virtual Goods anyone?

I had a good experience and I honestly wouldn't mind paying for their more professional price plans. I'll definately be considering using Heroku once our Rails version of Baboonza is up.