A little while back I found myself needing to handle file uploads without touching the application server. This is a common scenario for people using Heroku as they limit all requests to 30 seconds, which in theory sounds fine for most requests, but destroys any chance you have at directly handling file uploads within your Read More
It’s slightly frustrating looking through your users table and seeing a bunch of accounts that signed up but never confirmed, only existing in this limbo land where you can’t quite count them as a conversion and they seem to have dropped off the face of the earth. This rake task will look through your users Read More
It’s often a little known fact that Heroku does by default , NOT serve the compressed version of your assets to the client browser. Often it’s all too easy to get lost in the magic that is Heroku slug compilation and the simplicity of a “git push heroku master” code deploy that we forget the Read More
So, you’ve got a side project hosted with Heroku, you only have basic database requirements so the 10,000 row limited Postgres dev plan seems like a good choice and could possibly be a free alternative for a descent amount of time until you need to upgrade. Heck, at $35 a month per dyno, you need Read More