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Re:Ask HN: My first time developing a rails app. What do you... by craze3 on Friday September 21, 2012 @03:23PM (#4555288)
What benefits have you noticed from coding this in rails instead of PHP? Does it run faster or more efficiently?
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Re:Ask HN: My first time developing a rails app. What do you... by peachananr on Friday September 21, 2012 @03:50PM (#4555414)
The app seems to run fine right now, but I'll have to see how it goes. It is quite expensive though using Heroku but it is a lot easier to scale than using dedicated vitial machines like I did with MyColorscreen.com (my previous project).

For me personally, developing on rails made my life so much easier. There's a gem for everything. Facebook/Twitter/Foursquare can be integrated by just a few lines of codes.

Also in terms of resources like tutorials, rails community is by far the largest I've seen. Railscast.com really helped a lot in this project.

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Re:Ask HN: My first time developing a rails app. What do you... by japhyr on Friday September 21, 2012 @04:15PM (#4555530)
Do you mind sharing a bit more about cost? Heroku has a free tier; has the project already outgrown that?
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Re:Ask HN: My first time developing a rails app. What do you... by peachananr on Sunday September 23, 2012 @11:01PM (#4563008)
Sure, I'm currently running on:

Heroku Postgres Crane: $50 (just in case) SSL Endpoint: $25 1 web dyno, 1 worker dyno: $34.50

I'm still using a free Sendgrid to send emails (200 emails per day) but I'm sure I'll have to pay more sooner or later.

I used to use DV provided by Media Temple and it only costs me $50/month.

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Re:Ask HN: My first time developing a rails app. What do you... by HugoMelo on Friday September 21, 2012 @06:13PM (#4556158)
It feels a bit slow now for me. Is it getting pummeled by HN?

By the way, cool project.

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Re:Ask HN: My first time developing a rails app. What do you... by dbm44 on Friday September 21, 2012 @06:16PM (#4556172)
Did you mean Railscasts.com, with the extra s? Railscast.com does not look anything like so helpful!
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Re:Ask HN: My first time developing a rails app. What do you... by peachananr on Sunday September 23, 2012 @10:54PM (#4562993)
Yes, you are right. Sorry about that, I was typing that on my phone. :)
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