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InfoWorld review: Heroku cloud application platform

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.

By Andrew Glover | 01 December, 2011 06:17

Tags: application development, cloud computing, freemium, heroku, internet, paas, ruby on rails, software

InfoWorld review: Engine Yard Cloud

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.

By Andrew Glover | 01 December, 2011 06:07

Tags: application development, cloud computing, development platforms, engine yard, freemium, Infrastructure services, internet, paas, ruby on rails

Ruby clouds: Engine Yard vs. Heroku

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.

By Andrew Glover | 30 November, 2011 22:10

Tags: application development, cloud computing, engine yard, heroku, internet, paas, ruby on rails, software

Heroku, Engine Yard bolster language support on clouds

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

By Paul Krill | 01 October, 2011 01:22

Tags: application development, cloud computing, internet, Java Programming, paas, PHP Web, python, ruby on rails, salesforce.com, software

Ruby on Rails 3.1 will make the apps run faster

Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson has released version 3.1 of his open-source Web application development framework, adding new features that should speed the rendering of Web pages for users.

By Joab Jackson | 01 September, 2011 08:56

Tags: application development, Development tools, software, Web services development

VMware launches open source PaaS project

VMware has launched Cloud Foundry, an open source platform-as-a-service project aimed at stimulating development of Cloud apps.

By Rodney Gedda | 13 April, 2011 10:34

Tags: cloud computing, Cloud Foundry, open source, paas, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), VMware

NetBeans IDE drops Ruby on Rails backing

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.

By Paul Krill | 28 January, 2011 06:51

Tags: application development, Developer World, Development Environments, oracle, ruby on rails, software

Salesforce aims to be one-stop shop for cloud development

Salesforce.com's announcement Wednesday of plans to buy Heroku, as well as a rebranding of its array of services, makes it clear the vendor wants to be a one-stop shop for developing applications in the cloud.

By Chris Kanaracus | 09 December, 2010 05:35

Tags: application development, cloud computing, customer relationship management, Groupon, heroku, Hulu, internet, Internet-based applications and services, Mergers / acquisitions, salesforce.com, software, VMware

Salesforce.com buys Ruby cloud-app platform Heroku

Salesforce.com said on Wednesday it will acquire Heroku, a company that specializes in hosting applications based on the Ruby programming language, for US$212 million.

By Jeremy Kirk | 09 December, 2010 07:57

Tags: applications, customer relationship management, internet, Internet-based applications and services, salesforce.com, software

Ruby on Rails regains lost performance

The Ruby on Rails 3.0.3 Web development framework was released this week, restoring performance lost when the open source framework was upgraded to Rails 3.x.

By Paul Krill | 20 November, 2010 12:10

Tags: application development, software

Rebuilt Realestate.com.au ramps up Ruby on Rails

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.

By Rodney Gedda | 17 November, 2010 09:45

Tags: brightcove, Java, perl, realestate.com.au, ruby, ruby on rails

Rubinius Ruby language variant gets an upgrade

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.

By Paul Krill | 25 September, 2010 07:51

Tags: application development, Developer World, engin, Languages and standards, ruby on rails, software

Ruby on Rails 3.0 now available

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.

By Paul Krill | 31 August, 2010 02:22

Tags: application development, Developer World, Development frameworks, ruby on rails, software

Open source Ruby, Python hit rocky ground at Microsoft

Microsoft's open source IronRuby and IronPython projects are shrouded in a dubious future as the last of the full-time IronRuby developers departed the company last month.

By Rodney Gedda | 09 August, 2010 12:32

Tags: IronPython, IronRuby, Microsoft, .net, open source, python, ruby, software development, visual studio

Engine Yard expands Rails apps cloud services

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.

By Paul Krill | 03 June, 2010 20:18

Tags: apps, cloud, engine yard, ruby on rails, terremark

Ruby shining on Java, Windows, and Mac OS

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

By Paul Krill | 21 November, 2009 12:20

Tags: IronRuby, Java, Mac, MacRuby, ruby, ruby on rails, Windows

Red Hat defends its subscription license model for Linux

Anyone finding Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) subscriptions a tough sell for management used to Microsoft's one-time license fee for Windows must emphasize that there are more factors to be considered, chiefly return on investment, Red Hat officials said Friday.

By Paul Krill | 07 September, 2009 06:29

Tags: jboss, Linux, Red Hat, ruby

Sun's JRuby team jumps ship to Engine Yard

Sun Microsystems' JRuby team is leaving the company to work for application hosting company Engine Yard, citing the uncertainty surrounding Sun's planned acquisition by Oracle.

By James Niccolai | 29 July, 2009 05:37

Tags: engine yard, jruby, oracle, Oracle-Sun merger, ruby, Sun Mircosystems

Older Ruby line gets new maintainer

Engine Yard, which has offered services for the Ruby language and Ruby on Rails, has taken over maintenance responsibilities for an older release of the language.

By Paul Krill | 22 May, 2009 10:35

Tags: engine yard, ruby, ruby on rails, software development

Rails called enterprise-ready

Ruby on Rails is enterprise-ready. No joke.

By Paul Krill | 11 May, 2009 08:50

Tags: railsconf, ruby on rails

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