How to start developing Ruby on Rails applications with heroku?

Question

What is the best way to get familiar with the heroku environment? What are the first steps? I want to start programming with it next week, using Ruby on Rails.

Answer 1

If you want to get started on ruby on rails using Heroku one of the best things you can do is actually work through the Rails tutorial. It is designed and written with Heroku (and Git which you will be using to deploy) in mind. You can check it out at http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book .

I don't know if you already know Ruby or not, but the tutorial is designed in such a way that you don't actually need to know Ruby to follow it.

Answer 2

One very nice thing (among many) about Heroku is that they maintain solid documentation. Specifically for your question, you should start with Getting Started with Heroku .