Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting

2010-02-10 Thread Park,Go-Woon
- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Genny Engel Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 6:16 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting I have used Sonic.net for the past 10 years because it is run by geeks. Haven't done any Rails on it

Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting

2010-01-15 Thread Michael B. Klein
Yet another +1 for Heroku. I've had great experiences with it so far. On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Ross Singer wrote: > Have you looked at Heroku (http://heroku.com/)? I've only used their > freebie plan (so I have no idea how they compare pricewise), but it's > been fantastic to get Ruby a

Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting

2010-01-15 Thread B.C.Charlton
> If you want to run your own VPS, go with Linode (and contact me for a > referral key :)). A number of customers have switched to them since > Slicehost was sold to Rackspace. +1 for linode, based on personal experience. Ben

Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting

2010-01-14 Thread Genny Engel
I have used Sonic.net for the past 10 years because it is run by geeks. Haven't done any Rails on it, but you can build pretty much anything you want on standard tools & languages (Perl, PHP, Python, C, Ruby, etc.). For tech support, they have their own newsgroup hierarchy where questions get

Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting

2010-01-14 Thread Gabriel Farrell
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 03:33:20PM -0600, Chad Fennell wrote: > > If you want to run your own VPS, go with Linode (and contact me for a > > referral key :)).  A number of customers have switched to them since > > Slicehost was sold to Rackspace. > > Hey, no fair! :^p Oops, sorry. Chad has first

Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting

2010-01-14 Thread Terence Ingram
Kevin, I host a few rails apps with dreamhost (http://www.dreamhost.com/). I have found them to be really good. Cheers Terence On 15/01/10 3:15 AM, "Kevin Reiss" wrote: Hi, I was curious if anyone could recommend a hosting service that they've had a good ruby on rails experience with. I've

Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting

2010-01-14 Thread Nate Vack
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Gabriel Farrell wrote: > If you want to run your own VPS, go with Linode (and contact me for a > referral key :)).  A number of customers have switched to them since > Slicehost was sold to Rackspace. If it's "Plug your favorite VPS provider," I'll put in a shout

Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting

2010-01-14 Thread Chad Fennell
> If you want to run your own VPS, go with Linode (and contact me for a > referral key :)).  A number of customers have switched to them since > Slicehost was sold to Rackspace. Hey, no fair! :^p

Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting

2010-01-14 Thread Gabriel Farrell
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 08:15:38AM -0800, Kevin Reiss wrote: > Hi, > > I was curious if anyone could recommend a hosting service that they've had a > good ruby on rails experience with. I've been working with bluehost but my > experience has not been good. You need to work through a lot of hoops

Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting

2010-01-14 Thread Graham, Wayne (wsg4w)
Hi Kevin, Love Heroku (http://heroku.com/), but it does have limitations in the way it works (e.g. Read-only drive space). I've heard good thinks about EngineYard (http://www.engineyard.com) and I've been running several apps through slicehost. If you're feeling brave, you wan use jruby and de

Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting

2010-01-14 Thread Chad Fennell
FWIW, I was going to mention VPS as an option, but it sounded like *maybe* you'd been working under a managed hosting environment, so Heroku seemed like a natural fit to your question (easy Rails installs with support for a wide variety of libraries/common dependencies), which is why I mentioned at

Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting

2010-01-14 Thread Ross Singer
e >> # do...@uta.edu >> # http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/ >> >> >> > -Original Message- >> > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of >> > Kevin Reiss >> > Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 10:16 AM >> >

Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting

2010-01-14 Thread Ethan Gruber
> # University of Texas at Arlington > # 817-272-5326 office > # 817-688-1926 mobile > # do...@uta.edu > # http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/ > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of > > Kevin Reiss >

Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting

2010-01-14 Thread Rosalyn Metz
oran/ > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of > > Kevin Reiss > > Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 10:16 AM > > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > > Subject: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting > >

Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting

2010-01-14 Thread Doran, Michael D
> Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 10:16 AM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting > > Hi, > > I was curious if anyone could recommend a hosting service that they've > had a good ruby on rails experience with. I've been working with &g

Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting

2010-01-14 Thread Chad Fennell
> I was curious if anyone could recommend a hosting service that they've had a > good ruby on rails experience with. I've been working with bluehost but my > experience has not been good. You need to work through a lot of hoops just to > get a moderately complicated rails application properly. T

Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting

2010-01-14 Thread Ross Singer
Have you looked at Heroku (http://heroku.com/)? I've only used their freebie plan (so I have no idea how they compare pricewise), but it's been fantastic to get Ruby apps running there. Dreamhost also provides Passenger to their customers (http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Passenger) so that might be an

[CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting

2010-01-14 Thread Kevin Reiss
Hi, I was curious if anyone could recommend a hosting service that they've had a good ruby on rails experience with. I've been working with bluehost but my experience has not been good. You need to work through a lot of hoops just to get a moderately complicated rails application properly. The

Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails

2007-07-30 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
I just taught myself with the 2nd ed. of the Agile Development with Rails book, and still found it both entirely satisfactory and sufficient. I'd get the "Programming Ruby" (Pickaxe) book too, since you want to know Ruby to work with Rails, of course. Personally, I can't handle only having an ele

[CODE4LIB] Rails

2007-07-27 Thread Carol Bean
I started playing around with Rails a couple years ago, then got sidetracked. Now I have a project I'd like to put into Rails, and need to get back up to speed. I have an electronic copy of the original Pragmatic Programmers book on Rails, but there are now several other books out (as well as a