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Hi

I have a ror app ready…i have tested it on my local machine using
webrick.
Now i need to test it on the net.
Please let me know a site which offers free ROR hosting.

YES i did search this forum on this topic before posting.
I found a lot of topics, most of them were recommending heroku.com

But that site woks only with invites, if somebody can send me an invite,
that would be fine.

or if you know of alternative sites please let me know.

Thanks
Prasanna

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On Jun 22, 2008, at 1:30 AM, Prasanna kumar Nagasamudram wrote:

I have a ror app ready…i have tested it on my local machine using
webrick.
Now i need to test it on the net.
Please let me know a site which offers free ROR hosting.

This is not free, but it’s pretty close. For less than $2 a month you
get a heck of a lot.

http://refer.asmallorange.com/3304

I’m very happy with them.
A couple of disclaimers: That’s a referrer link. If you sign up
through it I’ll actually make a buck or two. If that bugs you, here’s
a plain vanilla link:
http://asmallorange.com/

Also, I’ve had a bunch of sites with them for years. I haven’t yet
converted any of those to rails. But their customer service is so good
I don’t expect any troubles.

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Prasanna,

If you simply want to show it off to your friends – you can sign up
for a free dev account at www.mor.ph. (I work for Morph.) If you need
to deploy in production, you can opt to get the next plan, which just
starts at $1 a day.

Macel

On Jun 22, 3:30 pm, Prasanna kumar Nagasamudram <rails-mailing-

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I have an account on Heroku, so let me know what email you’d like to
receive the invite.

Just a word of warning, though: Heroku is extremely cool, but if
you’re intending your Rails app to be a production site (as opposed to
a simple blog), I would really recommend going with one of the cheaper
hosts mentioned.

Cheers!

On Jun 22, 2:30 am, Prasanna kumar Nagasamudram <rails-mailing-

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Dale Campbell wrote:

I have an account on Heroku, so let me know what email you’d like to
receive the invite.

Just a word of warning, though: Heroku is extremely cool, but if
you’re intending your Rails app to be a production site (as opposed to
a simple blog), I would really recommend going with one of the cheaper
hosts mentioned.

Cheers!

On Jun 22, 2:30�am, Prasanna kumar Nagasamudram <rails-mailing-

Thanks…I got hold of one!

When I said create App it gave me an ror directory structure…
I tried to use the iport feature but it gives an internal server error
when trying to upload my app which is in the tgz format.

Please let me know how to deploy my app ?
I have been using the provided webrick server to test it and it works
fine on my local machine with the url…
http://localhost:3000/myapp/list

Thanks
Prasanna

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Hi Prasanna,

Sorry for getting back just now. I had to facilitate for the
Philippine Open Source Summit sessions that happened over here just
recently. Do send me a copy of the exact error messages, so that we
can verify further. My email is at [email protected].

Regards,
Macel

On Jun 23, 4:35 pm, Prasanna kumar Nagasamudram <rails-mailing-

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hi Dale, could you consider sending me an invite? my
email is ppjunty07 at gmail. thanks a lot.

Dale Campbell wrote:

I have an account on Heroku, so let me know what email you’d like to
receive the invite.

Just a word of warning, though: Heroku is extremely cool, but if
you’re intending your Rails app to be a production site (as opposed to
a simple blog), I would really recommend going with one of the cheaper
hosts mentioned.

Cheers!

On Jun 22, 2:30�am, Prasanna kumar Nagasamudram <rails-mailing-

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Macel wrote:

Prasanna,

If you simply want to show it off to your friends – you can sign up
for a free dev account at www.mor.ph. (I work for Morph.) If you need
to deploy in production, you can opt to get the next plan, which just
starts at $1 a day.

Macel

On Jun 22, 3:30 pm, Prasanna kumar Nagasamudram <rails-mailing-

Hi Macel

Thanks, I have created an account on www.mor.ph, now, i createed a
subscription and database, downloaded the capfile.

I just have my application zip file when i unzip it…it gives myapp
folder with the ror directory structure.

I copied the cap file to myapp and tried to execute it as

ruby morph_deploy.rb …it cribs about lot of dependecncies…is
there a list of dependecncis that i need to download before executing
the above command ?

Thanks
Prasanna

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Macel wrote:

Prasanna,

Do email me at macel [at] mor dot ph. I’d love to help you out.

Cheers,
Macel

On Jun 23, 4:35 pm, Prasanna kumar Nagasamudram <rails-mailing-

Thanks a lot Machel.

I enjoyed devoloping my app using ruby on rails(i started with rails
1.2.2).
and was happy to see the output, via the webrick server and I thought
this is it, i can now just copy the zip file of my rorapp, to any
webfolder and it should be up and running…(like any of the other app,
like php, jsp etc…).

I dint realize that deployment would be a horror.

I have read this capistrino stuff…that remebers me of ejb
deployment…updating hunderds of xmls…ended no mans land.

I could provide you the zip of my ror app, can you please help me in
deploying my app?

Once this is successful, im planning to write a step by step article on
ror deployment…

Thanks
Prasanna

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Prasanna,

Do email me at macel [at] mor dot ph. I’d love to help you out.

Cheers,
Macel

On Jun 23, 4:35 pm, Prasanna kumar Nagasamudram <rails-mailing-

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Hi Prasanna,

I’d love to help you out with your deployment. Prior to deployment,
you have to check on a few things such as:

  • locking all your gems for production applications so that your
    application is using the gems you have tested and know work, rather
    than relying on the server gems which may or may not be compatible.
    for help, you can check out http://gemsonrails.rubyforge.org. if one
    or more gems can’t be locked, send you gem installation to us and our
    team will check if we can add that to our servers.
  • Capistrano 2.x must be installed on your system
  • and a few other things

Please email me directly at macel [at] mor dot ph so that I can help
you further.

Regards,
Macel

On Jun 27, 1:50 pm, Prasanna kumar Nagasamudram <rails-mailing-