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- Last Updated: December 04, 2012
- Zeke Sikelianos
Heroku Add-ons make it easy for developers to extend their applications with new features and functionality. The Add-on Provider Program has enabled cloud service providers with key business tools, including billing, single sign-on, and an integrated end-user support experience. Since the launch of the Heroku Add-ons site over two years ago, the marketplace has grown to nearly 100 add-ons. As the add-ons ecosystem has grown, we've learned a lot about how cloud service providers structure their businesses and how users interact with them.
Today we're happy to announce the launch of the updated Heroku Add-ons site .
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- News
- Last Updated: November 05, 2012
- Richard Schneeman
When Heroku first launched you could only use one version of Ruby: 1.8.6. As the Ruby implementation matured and improved, so did Heroku. We recently announced the ability to specify your ruby version on Heroku , and we are happy to announce the first preview-build of Ruby available: starting today you can use Ruby 2.0 preview1 on Heroku.
The Ruby core team has been hard at work on Ruby 2.0, which has a host of new features and boasts performance improvements. You can get a list of the major new features on the…
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- Last Updated: May 14, 2024
- Kenneth Reitz
Here at Heroku, we focus our energy on developer experience and productivity. Historically, this has revolved around command-line tools like the Heroku Toolbelt and the Heroku CLI . As a polyglot platform, we have developers that come from all backgrounds — some that prefer command-line workflows and others that prefer web interface. Most use a bit of both.
Today, we're introducing a new first-class interface to our platform: the Heroku Dashboard .
App Awareness and Discoverability
The new Heroku Dashboard features a fresh look and feel, optimized for readability and workflow efficiency.
The…
- News
- Last Updated: February 22, 2012
- Mattt Thompson
Heroku users are known for leading jet-setter lifestyles. It's true! Developers with refined, sophisticated tastes git push to the cloud in order to appreciate the finer things of life: foreign cinema, travel to exotic destinations, and focusing on development instead of configuring system infrastructure.
So it's only natural that Heroku developers on-the-go reach for Nezumi.
Nezumi is a paid 3rd-party iPhone app created by Marshall Huss that allows you to scale dynos, restart apps, and so much more–perfect for when you're away from your computer. Its latest release adds support for Cedar applications, multiple accounts,…
- News
- Last Updated: November 12, 2011
- Mark Pundsack
Today we're happy to announce the availability of Heroku Scheduler . Scheduler is an add-on for running administrative or maintenance tasks, or jobs, at scheduled time intervals. It's the polyglot replacement of the Cron add-on, with more power and flexibility. And it's free; you just pay for the dyno time consumed by the one-off tasks .
A dashboard allows you to configure jobs to run every 10 minutes, every hour, or every day, and unlike the Cron add-on, you can control when. E.g. Every hour on the half-hour, or every day at 7:00am.
- News
- Last Updated: May 02, 2024
- Morten Bagai
Today we're proud to announce the availability in beta of RabbitMQ add-on by VMWare. RabbitMQ is an open source implementation of the AMQP protocol that provides a robust, scalable and easy-to-use messaging system built for the needs of cloud application developers.
With the add-on, provisioning a fully managed RabbitMQ instance couldn't be easier to do:
$ cd rabbitdemo
$ heroku addons:add rabbitmq
—–> Adding rabbitmq to rabbitdemo… done, v2 (free)
$ heroku config
RABBITMQ_URL => amqp://uname:pwd@host.heroku.srs.rabbitmq.com:13029/vhost
Your application's environment will now have the RABBITMQ_URL set pointing to your new instance. Most modern AMQP clients such as…
- News
- Last Updated: December 21, 2010
- Ben Scofield
We’re very excited about the growth of the add-on ecosystem following the launch of the provider program — with dozens of add-ons in various stages of release, our developers have access to a wide variety of functionality for their applications. One of the most recent additions to the generally-available add-on catalog is IndexTank, a real-time search-as-a-service with some great features.
In order to celebrate their release, IndexTank is sponsoring a contest over the holiday season. From last week until January 6th, they’re inviting developers to build the best app they can using the IndexTank add-on. You can see…
- News
- Last Updated: January 03, 2008
- Adam Wiggins
RSpec 1.1 is now a part of the default plugin kit for Heroku apps.
We’ve been fans of RSpec for a while now, and feel that it represents the future of TDD/BDD for the Rails world. If you’re not familiar with RSpec, read up and then give it a try.
You don’t need to install anything to use RSpec in your Heroku app, but you do need to initialize the spec/ and stories/ directories by running the rspec generator. Just open the Generate dialog, type in rspec, and click Run.
Once you’ve written some specs, you can run them the usual way:…
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