Ruby on Rails Hosting
Ruby on Rails Development
Rails Hosting
Finding quality hosting for Ruby on Rails can be tricky. Some companies, such as GoDaddy claim to support Ruby on Rails. Other shared hosts such as bluehost do the same also. In most cases, though, these companies host your rails program in the slowest, most unacceptable method possible: .fcgi. This often comes with bugs, errors, or if you're using GoDaddy you will even get a "this rails application has problems" every five minutes. The solution? Find a company dedicated to Ruby on Rails. My company, for example, (Chrono, LC) has been using rails for a while now, offering hosting, development, and more.
There are many other quality companies out there for Ruby on Rails hosting besides mine. The official Ruby on Rails host in Joyent, although there 'accelerators' are a little pricing, starting at $45 per month. SliceHost seems to get good reviews from across the board (ignoring the ones on their website), and they start as cheap as $20 per month. If you're really dedicated, though, you can go back to one of those other big-name big-brand companies such as GoDaddy and pay for a virtual private server, on which you can install Apache and Mongrel to load balance your rails applications.
Rails Development
Developing a Ruby on Rails application is more than half the process: hosting is only for afterwards. Again I would recommend my company and I for your development needs. There are many other companies out there, though, which could also be of use. Browse through the rails forums and websites for links to several of the top companies. I haven't really tried any of the other companies, since I've had no need, but a simple google for "rails developers" will turn up more than enough listings to get you pointed in the right direction.
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Post a CommentRoderick, lol, that sounds like a commercial advertisement. I'd recommend Slicehost from what I've used so far -- and I'm not affiliated with them.
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