[railsjedi]

Yep, I tried all the open source autoscaling heroku tools on Github. They were not easy to use, and had major problems (try them, you'll see!)

I think Heroku users value their time above all else. There's much cheaper ways to host your Rails apps. This tool allows Heroku users to save money while not having to spend days getting their autoscaling stuff working and tested.

[aaronbrethorst]

Pedro's DJ fork[1] has worked quite well for me. What didn't go well with it for you?

[1] https://github.com/pedro/delayed_job/tree/autoscaling

[steveklabnik]

It only scales jobs, it doesn't scale dynos.

[runT1ME]

>>I think Heroku users value their time above all else. There's much cheaper ways to host your Rails apps. This tool allows Heroku users to save money while not having to spend days getting their autoscaling stuff working and tested.

Then charge more!!!

I mean, you just said it yourself, your target market values time over money. Don't try to compete on price then. right? :)

[enoptix]

This one works exceptionally well with Resque:

https://gist.github.com/501160

[steveklabnik]

This scales workers, it doesn't scale dynos.