--- title: Where do you deploy your Ruby apps? | daily.dev description: A forum poster asks fellow Ruby developers where they deploy small personal projects and demos, noting that Heroku's free tier used to be the default choice... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/where-do-you-deploy-your-ruby-apps--tutd1axhq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Where do you deploy your Ruby apps? | daily.dev og:description: A forum poster asks fellow Ruby developers where they deploy small personal projects and demos, noting that Heroku's free tier used to be the default choice... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/where-do-you-deploy-your-ruby-apps--tutd1axhq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/TUTD1AXhQ.png og:image:alt: Where do you deploy your Ruby apps? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Where do you deploy your Ruby apps? **[Ruby Flow](https://daily.dev/sources/rubyflow)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A forum poster asks fellow Ruby developers where they deploy small personal projects and demos, noting that Heroku's free tier used to be the default choice but the landscape now has many competing options without a clear leader. The poster shares their own setup, using Heroku eco dynos for a low-usage client app and a self-hosted Miren cluster for testing various stacks and processing RSS feeds, and invites others to share self-hosted or custom deployment setups. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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