Tonight, at the Phoenix Android meeting, someone asked if I knew any good Ruby / Rails web hosts. Something easy for someone who’s just learning Rails and wants to be able to essentially copy/paste their code to a server and have it “just work.”

The first (and only) service that came to mind was: Heroku

Heroku is a sweet Ruby web application host that makes it ridiculously easy to host your applications. Basically, you can take any existing Ruby / Rails web application you have and git push it to heroku … and it gets automagically deployed. That’s it.

Up until recently (maybe even today?), Heroku was in Beta and 100% free. It looks like they’ve finally released some pricing information but there is still a free plan so Heroku is still a great choice for quickly and easily deploying a Ruby web app.

Anyway, that’s all. I have a bit of a head cold so I sound a little funny and I’m doing 100 times more “ummmm” than usual … but, otherwise, I hope folks will find this useful. In the first 5 minutes, we create AND deploy and Rails application :D