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		padseeker 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Why does nearly every Ruby on rails tutori... 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/

arromatic 9 months ago [–]

Any option for local hosting for development purpose ?

Also what happened to heroku free ?

padseeker 9 months ago | [–]

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?

arromatic 9 months ago | | [–]

Yeah, on my machine .

Alifatisk 9 months ago | | [–]

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

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