[kiallmacinnes]

So.. You're half right IMHO!

A linux desktop is entirely unnecessary. But so is Heroku.

This "just deploy to Heroku" mentality is really starting to get on my nerves.

Heroku is a great product that solves real problems for a certain class of project (and user). It is not, in any way, shape or form, the solution to every problem. Stop telling people it is.

[aaronblohowiak]

Deploying someone's first RoR project seems like exactly the class of project and user that Heroku is a good fit for.

[hayksaakian]

you can't argue with their free tier.

if you need to get a rails app hosted NOW, it's as simple as

    heroku create appname
    git push heroku master

[gtani]

Yes, if you're runnign rails, you definitely shd learn the first 10 minutes of a wide open VPS config (passwd,ssh, fial2ban, iptables/ufw etc)... sometime But it doesn't have to be the first deploy