Getting started with Heroku

@bscofield I think I missed a step in your instructions w/ @heroku

Heroku is fantastic for experimentation, which leads to a predictable conclusion: a lot of abandoned applications on the platform. In order to keep them from chewing up an inordinate amount of resources, the platform treats single-dyno applications a little differently (with the assumption that an experiment is likely to be running on the free plan): if the app hasn’t been hit in a certain amount of time, it gets idled (or spun down). Then, on the next attempt to access it, the single dyno is unidled.

Full article: http://rubylearning.com/blog/2010/12/15/getting-started-w...