I’ve known about Heroku for a while, but haven’t used it for anything beyond creating simple CRUD for an ‘Article’ model or whatever. Yawn.

However, I just finished creating a test app for GitTrip that bumps Heroku’s coolness/usefulness up a few notches (and now serves as GitTrip’s unofficial official site). I did have some problems with installing gems through their gem browser, but it worked fine when I uploaded the .gem directly from my computer. I also stumbled upon the fact that they automagically create a git repository when you create an app. Check the ‘Revisions’ link in the Code ‘IDE’ (bottom left, underneath the file list). This, along with the Heroku gem, make working locally (almost) seamless.

Now you know why Heroku is cooler than you.