EngineYard.com put out a bounty on getting a fair proxy balancer that would keep track of when a mongrel is busy and not send requests to it until it has finished and is ready to take requests.

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When you create or import an app with Heroku, it’s already live on the web. No configuration or deployment necessary.

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Classy web-development dressed in a DSL

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