There are many great options for hosting your rails application. For instances, PaaS like engine yard and heroku provide great scalability and automations to ease your deployment. VPS like Linode provides more traditional hosting services, which gives you full control of a node. But what if you just want to test your idea and have a public domain name (no tunneling and router tricks)? Then OpenShift is a great choice, cause it is FREE! (at least for your first 3 gears)

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I am by no means a Ruby expert. This is my humble attempt of sharing what I have learned and serves as a note to future me. It should be helpful to whoever is new to Ruby and would like to have a jump start on developing a Ruby gem.

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