Ask HN: Why does nearly every Ruby on rails tutorial/book ask to use Heroku? 2 pointsarromatic1 year ago5 commentsSaveHideCopy link On HNComments−padseeker1yHeroku 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/−arromaticOP1yAny option for local hosting for development purpose ?Also what happened to heroku free ?−padseeker1ySalesforce 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?−arromaticOP1yYeah, on my machine .−Alifatisk1yhttps://guides.rubyonrails.org/command_line.html#bin-rails-s...
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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/
Any option for local hosting for development purpose ?
Also what happened to heroku free ?
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?
Yeah, on my machine .
https://guides.rubyonrails.org/command_line.html#bin-rails-s...