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Heroku is a 3-in-one service for Ruby On Rails development : It’s an editor, a collaborative tool and finally it includes a built-in hosting !

I am using it for my new personal project and I can tel you that it’s really effective and useful ! I did my registration form in 20 minutes. (I know I’m a beginner… :))

Here is a few of the features available :

• Instantly Live : When you create or import an app with Heroku, it’s already live on the web. No configuration or deployment necessary.
• Share and Collaborate : Make your app public to the web or private to users you specify. Add collaborators who can edit the app with you.
• Painless Migrations : Unapplied migrations are automatically detected. Apply them with one click.
• Create and Edit Online : Edit all of your code and data right in your browser. You can access it anywhere and there’s nothing to install.
• Generate Code : Use Rails generators to create code for your application. Run any generate command right in your browser.
• Console : Execute code and manipulate data through a full Rails console running in a browser window.

And they don’t tel it in the feature list but on their blog, you can now add plugins and gems.

Heroku is still in beta but watch carefully to this future company