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• InfoWorld review: Heroku cloud application platform

  By Andrew Glover | 01 December, 2011 06:17

  Heroku is a pure platform as a service -- that is, the entire infrastructure is managed by Heroku and not by you. As such, deploying a Ruby application, whether or not it is Rails based, is practically effortless. Deployment, in fact, is performed as a part of a regular SCM (software configuration management) sync via Git, an innovative, freely available, and quite popular distributed source code management system pioneered by Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux.

• InfoWorld review: Engine Yard Cloud

  By Andrew Glover | 01 December, 2011 06:07

  Although code deployment might not be as easy with Engine Yard as with Heroku, the Engine Yard platform is dramatically more tunable. In fact, in many ways, Engine Yard is closer to an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) than a platform as a service (PaaS). Engine Yard provides a base infrastructure tuned to run Ruby applications, but the rest is up to you. Engine Yard does offer Git integration; however, deployment is not executed via a push, as in Heroku, but rather via Engine Yard's suite of tools and its extensive dashboard, which can sync with a Git repository.

• Ruby clouds: Engine Yard vs. Heroku

  By Andrew Glover | 30 November, 2011 22:10

  In the world of Ruby development, there are two primary cloud-based, platform-as-a-service offerings: Engine Yard and Heroku. Both provide an easy-to-scale, managed hosting environment, both are built on Amazon EC2, and both have a long and intimate history with the Ruby community. Nevertheless, they offer contrasting approaches and features that will appeal to different audiences.

• Heroku, Engine Yard bolster language support on clouds

  By Paul Krill | 01 October, 2011 01:22

  Platform-as-a-service cloud vendors Heroku and Engine Yard have been branching out to accommodate more developers by backing more programming languages.

• NetBeans IDE drops Ruby on Rails backing

  By Paul Krill | 28 January, 2011 06:51

  Citing low usage trends and a priority on Java, builders of the NetBeans IDE have killed off Ruby on Rails support in a planned upgrade, the NetBeans community announced on Thursday.

• Rebuilt Realestate.com.au ramps up Ruby on Rails

  By Rodney Gedda | 17 November, 2010 09:45

  Property portal Realestate.com.au has been re-engineered from the ground up with its legacy Perl codebase being replaced with Java and Ruby on Rails.

• Rubinius Ruby language variant gets an upgrade

  By Paul Krill | 25 September, 2010 07:51

  Rubinius, an implementation of the Ruby programming language featuring enhancements for JIT (Just In Time) compilation and garbage collection, is being upgraded Friday, gaining improvements in debugging, memory usage, and performance.

• Ruby on Rails 3.0 now available

  By Paul Krill | 31 August, 2010 02:22

  Ruby on Rails 3.0, an upgrade to the popular open source Web framework that features a merger with the Merb framework, was released Sunday, the founder of Rails, David Heinemeier Hansson, said in a blog.

• Engine Yard expands Rails apps cloud services

  By Paul Krill | 03 June, 2010 20:18

  Engine Yard will extend on Thursday its services for cloud-based services for Ruby on Rails applications, giving users the option to deploy on Terremark infrastructure.

• Ruby shining on Java, Windows, and Mac OS

  By Paul Krill | 21 November, 2009 12:20

  Ruby, the popular open source dynamic language, is making headway not only on Java but also on the Windows and Mac platforms.