Ask HN: Why does nearly every Ruby on rails tutorial/book ask to use Heroku?

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Heroku is the OG of affordable rails hosting. If the tutorial is older than 3-4 years ago then it was published when Heroku was free, which it no longer is.

There are lots of other affordable, but probably not free, options now;

https://railway.app/ https://fly.io/ https://www.hetzner.com/ https://www.digitalocean.com/ https://render.com/

arromatic2 anni fa

Any option for local hosting for development purpose ?

Also what happened to heroku free ?

padseeker2 anni fa

Salesforce bought it and there were too many freeloaders.

Options of "local hosting for development purposes"? Do you mean running "rails s" locally on your machine?

arromatic2 anni fa

Yeah, on my machine .

Alifatisk2 anni fa

https://guides.rubyonrails.org/command_line.html#bin-rails-s...