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Cloudy with High Wins: Ruby on Rails with Nitrous.io

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Re: Cloudy with High Wins: Ruby on Rails with Nitrous.io

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Thanks @DanielKehoe, this is very comprehensive. It's great to see how to do it, but how do you find using it? What's the speed like?

That's the thing, I thought it would be unusable because of network latency. But I'm actually using it and it seems faster than my native environment on a Macbook Air. Fast Comcast broadband in San Francisco's Outer Sunset District but still, how can it be faster than my local shell?

Re: Cloudy with High Wins: Ruby on Rails with Nitrous.io

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As usual, a very complete writeup by @DanielKehoe. It's interesting to see alternatives to Heroku starting to popup.

Uh, not exactly Heroku. You can launch an app and see it in your browser but just while you are doing development. You'll still need to deploy your application to Heroku or elsewhere for hosting. Nitrous.io is more like Cloud9, someplace to write code. Or maybe you are thinking of the old Heroku Garden which had a browser-based coding environment.