I have finally successfully deployed simple apps on Heroku in following the tutorial at Ruby on Rails Tutorial | Learn Enough to Be Dangerous .
Are there other free sites like Heroku? I want to deploy on other sites as well, so that I caern see what the differences are from one site to another.
Hi!
I’m not sure, but I guess EngineYard is one of the competitors:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroku → See section “Competitors” for others alternatives.
Best Regards,
Everaldo
you should chek www.dotcloud.com , I used that with a python framework (web2py) an I saw that it also support rails
but I haven’t used it yet. I used heroku for rails and it is fine
I can also suggest Cloud 66 (www.cloud66.com) which is an application management as a service. It configures, deploys and manages your web applications and mobile backends on any cloud or your own servers without the need to for any download or sysop.
Disclaimer: I work for Cloud 66
Another alternative worth looking at is Shelly Cloud: https://shellycloud.com Deployment is done via git like in Heroku, but it differs in that you get whole virtual servers that you can utilize in different ways: for application servers, delayed_job workers, databases, etc. It comes with free credit, so you can play with it for about a month (depending on usage) without paying anything.
Cheers, Michal
Funny seeing some of these old hosting names again 
. For anyone finding this thread now, I deployed one of my Rails projects with Kuberns. I mainly wanted to avoid spending a weekend setting up a VPS and then SSHing in whenever something needed restarting.
Its not free like the original question asks, but for a project I planned to keep building, saving that setup and maintenance time was worth much more to me.
The Judoscale team started a tour to test every Heroku alternative.