[keven]

In addition to Olivier's comment, we will also have deployment option to popular cloud providers such as Heroku, PHPFog and EC2

[themgt]

How will this work? It sounded like a user could just build a custom VM image and send it to you. There wouldn't be a way to deploy that to heroku, right?

Are you doing sort of a blended app hosting/cloud offering?

[sayhello]

With what we have today, code on our pre-configured RoR stack will work on heroku.

What we have in the works is detecting if you have e.g. Redis and subscribing to that "addon" for you.

[themgt]

Have you seen the dotcloud "build files" for specifying services? I wonder if trying to encourage standardization among cloud/app hosts on a service specification file like this would be beneficial, similar to Gemfile/Procfile/etc.

service 'redis', '~> 2.2.2'

http://docs.dotcloud.com/guides/build-file/

[shykes]

dotCloud team here. If there's interest, we'll happily contribute our specs and code to get things started.

[sayhello]

I'd love to. I'll email you soon.

[amirhhz]

I smiled reading this exchange, very good-spirited. Hope you can successfully work together!