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Heroku – Online Ruby on Rails IDE

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For a while now i have been thinking “Wouldn’t it be cool if someone made an online Internet IDE?” After all, it seems that just about every other app you’d find on your typical desktop PC has an equivalent online version.

Heroku

Well it seems that someone has actually made an online IDE called Heroku. Specifically, it is a hosted Ruby on Rails development environment.

Basically this means that instead of installing Ruby on Rails and all of its dependancies on your computer to make your next killer Rails app, you can just save all of that hassle and do everything in a web browser.

Features are listed here. In all it looks to be a very interesting web app, perhaps more suited to a mobile worker or maybe a small development team looking for a no-fuss solution for collaboration.

Now if only i had an account so i could try it out….

Posted on November 10, 2007

  • Thanks a lot, Ted.

    Your IDE seems very promising... will have to check it out.
  • James:
    Bungee Connect (www.bungeeconnect.com) is another browser-based IDE, also in beta. (I work for Bungee Labs.) It has much more of a focus on richly interactive applications and user interfaces than RoR/Heroku does. Drop me an email, if you'd like to know more.

    --Ted
  • Hey Stan!

    Actually i already received an invite a while ago. But thanks for the offer. :)

    As for running RailsCollab on it, make sure all the necessary gem's are installed. You might also have an issue with gd2, which is used to resize images for the company logo's and user avatar's - which you can disable quite easily by commenting out the relevant code.

    ~ James
  • Stan G.
    I can get you an invite if you like. (It doesn't seem to work with RailsCollab however :( )
  • Cool! Thanks for sharing the link!
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