Take the 2-minute tour ×  I am a Ruby newbie. I am designing a
web application and plan to use Ruby for coding. This project is
for learning purpose but I want to host it live to see how it
works. I plan to use PostgreSQL as back-end.  I want to know how
to host a Ruby website. Which hosting service providers provide
support for it? And I also want to know whether I should start
with PostgreSQL or MySQL.  share|improve this question add
comment  3 Answers  up vote 4 down vote accepted  A good option
for hosting Ruby web apps is Heroku. You can use the Rails,
Ramaze, Sinatra, or Camping frameworks. For a small app it's
free, but you can also purchase bigger hosting packages. Their
system defaults to Postgres, but if you use MySQL or Sqlite on
your development machine Heroku will automatically import it and
convert to Postgres when you push to it. Pushing an app to
Heroku is easy too, you just need to have a git repository and
use a rubygem to push.  share|improve this answer add comment
If its a website, what