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Free Ruby on Rails hosting
Rails Playground is offering free hosting for your Ruby on Rails projects or sandbox. If you've used web applications like Backpack, Basecamp or 43Things, you've seen the results of the magic that is Ruby on Rails. This looks like a fantastic way to dip your feet into this rapid web application development framework. They're offering free 20MB disk space and 500MB/mo. bandwidth with no ads -- is there a catch? I hope not.
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Jordan Running said 4:37PM on 9-12-2005
That's fantastic. I hope it lasts awhile.
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anthony rudgick said 5:03PM on 9-12-2005
simple, straightforward sign up process. ftp, ssh access and cpanel as well. beats the 5 minutes it taks to set up ruby/rails!
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Mike said 5:32PM on 9-12-2005
great stuff! I was just about to set up a dedicated box to play around with Rails since I mainly run IIS, but having them do all the hard work sounds like a good idea. You even get PostgreSQL, which is unheard of for free. Thanks for the link.
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