Ethan Fast » web application http://blog.ethanjfast.com Lambdas, Hacks, and Fiction Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:50:02 +0000 en hourly 1 Listeria: Testing Rails 3 and Heroku http://blog.ethanjfast.com/2010/08/listeria-testing-rails-3-and-heroku/ http://blog.ethanjfast.com/2010/08/listeria-testing-rails-3-and-heroku/#comments Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:36:53 +0000 Ethan http://blog.ethanjfast.com/?p=507 I’ve been interested in using Heroku for quite some time, and so I recently decided to make a small web app using a fresh release of Rails 3. The result of my efforts: Listeria, a list managing application which, while far from feature-full, has (so I assert) a nice, minimalistic layout and user interface. This project also gave me an excuse to play around with the new ajax helpers in Rails 3, which I found much superior to their previous incarnation.

This is far from an exciting application — but hey, what else are blogs for? And I certainly learned something from the project. As for Rails 3 and Heroku (or better yet, their combination), I highly recommend them for quickly getting a prototype off the ground.

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As always, the code open source and available at github.

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